As I spend my last day in Honduras I can’t help but to reflect and contemplate all that God has taught me. There is one simple, recurring truth that God has been showing me ever since that first day of ministry back at Zion’s Gate: it’s the little things in life that matter and mean the most. It’s the food you share with that little kid who maybe hasn’t eaten all day, or the cup of coffee you drink with that family who just wants someone to listen. It’s the five minutes you spend truly listening to how someone’s day is, or the smile you show to that woman who is in desperate need of a hint of joy. It’s the times you tell that one child you love them because you aren’t sure if they hear those words from anyone else, or the moment you seize the opportunity to serve someone you love just to let them know you care. It’s the inspiration you give that kid through just a few words of encouragement, or the moment hope is restored in someone because of the love and compassion you showed. I believe these are the moments we were created for, the moments we live for. Oswald Chambers says it best, “we were not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We were built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in; that is where we have to prove our mettle.” It is in the ordinary circumstances that our true character shines and we begin to grasp who we are as a person. If we stay fixated on the future and never live in the present, we can spend our whole lives focused on who we could, or should be, rather than who we really are. There will never be another day like the one you live today. How will you take every moment of that day to make that time special? to make a memory?
Our Father is so proud of us when we succeed in the ordinary, because He knows when the time comes He can show us something, and take us somewhere extraordinary. To live in the present is all we can do because we are not promised tomorrow. We must live and love everyday as if it were our last. God has something new for us everyday, but it’s our choice whether or not we want to seek His heart and what He has in store. Don’t live in the morrow, the week, the month or even the year, but live in the now, for when this is done, lives will truly be transformed. When we begin to live fully alive everyday for God and pursue Him, we are ultimately, through this, placing our future in His hands, and from these hands all dreams are originated and orchestrated. God is always in the present, there is no past or future for Him, only now. So by surrendering every day to the Father we are, in a sense, dreaming with Him and living our whole life with Him, which is exactly what He wants. There is no where else God wants us to be but in His presence with Him. Let us all live life in the now and live it with our Father!
