MOMENTS THAT MATTER

I Was Just Thinking About – MOMENTS THAT MATTER.

The overnight news (Thursday, December 19, 20019) showed an amazing weather moment on the East Coast of our nation. With a video from atop the Empire State Building, one could see a normal day sunshine day that dramatically changed to what was called a phenomenal instant Blizzard. The “white-out” caught drivers unawares and chaos occurred on the highways and streets. Large trucks were jack-knifed and automobile accidents had taken place. Drivers thought they could keep on driving even though it was impossible to see clearly where they were much less how to safely proceed.

Life, in general, is a lot like that weather phenomenon. A person can be following a normal day’s activity and suddenly have a heart attack –  dying unexpectedly. One can be driving on a highway and a vehicle going in the opposite direction suddenly swerves or veers causing a head-on collision that results in instant death of innocent and unsuspecting people in the other vehicle. This happened to a friend who was carefully driving across a four-lane highway and was struck by another vehicle driving at an excessive speed – jack-knifing my friends vehicle – that would within hours would result in my friends death. It left behind his dear wife and two young children. Such moments and consequences matter.

Jesus spoke about the moments that matter. To an unfocused group of disciples, he would instruct and remind them – John 4:31-38 – after having visited with the woman at the well, the disciples are curious about what he had been doing. Jesus had her salvation in focus whereas the disciples had food and a meal in their focus. What was the thrust of what Jesus wanted His disciples to learn and know about moments and opportunities? He states to them – John 4:35 – “Open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” His conversation with the Samaritan Woman was coming with most of the town-folks to see The One who “told me everything I ever did” (John 4:29).

On another occasion, the disciples are trying to understand the return of Jesus Christ.  Jesus tells them - Matthew 24:42-44 – “You do not know on what day your Lord will come…You must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.” Luke 17:24 (MSG)  indicates: “You know how the whole sky lights up from a single flash of lightning? That’s how it will be on the Day of the Son of Man.”

Paul describes this moment that matters in First Corinthians 15:51-54 – “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash (a moment), in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed…then the saying that is written will come true: Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

Are YOU ready for that eternal moment that matters? Are YOU fully and completely committed to Jesus Christ?

Dying with Jesus, by death reckoned mine;
Living with Jesus, a new life divine;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine,
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.

Refrain

Moment by moment I’m kept in His love;
Moment by moment I’ve life from above;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine;
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.

Prayerfully – Consider These Things With Me.