21
Nov
2006
Interuptions can become divine moments!
Anyone at Emmanuel on sunday will have Heard alain mention a quote of CS lewis about the interuptions of life, here is is for those who didn’t hear it:
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s own, or real life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one’s real life is a phantom of one’s own imagination. This at least is what I see at moments of insight; but it’s hard to remember it all the time.” – CS Lewis
What a powerful Quote! This morning I was reading in John 4 where Jesus Meets the Woman at the well, as I read and seen the conversation deepen with this woman, I asked myself the question could it be that sometimes in life – or maybe all the time, that the ‘interuptions’ could actually be God trying to create a divine moment(s) for us to speak God into someones life.
As Neil said in cell last night, Sometimes God is taking people throught the rough stuff to give them the stamp of authority when speaking into peoples lives that Yes its tough and horrible, But that they can tesify that God is good and that His grace is sufficent for all of us in those darkest hours!
Today lets change our tone of reaction, when something goes wrong, or something bad happens to us lets first seek God and ask Him to reveal and help us to see what divine moment(s) God is preparing us for.
The most dangerous prayer you will ever pray will be ‘Not my will but yours be done’ Jesus raised the bar when He prayed this in the Garden the night he was arrested, The Cost may be high, but don’t count the cost with your earth eyes, rather focus and see the eternal Purpose, Plan and Will of God.
