This Moment
December 12th, 2009 | 
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The pastor says you shouldn’t preach to yourself, but since I am not a preacher, then maybe I can blog to myself. Thursday night during service, we were having a good worship time. However, I was sort of half there and half another place. I was enjoying the worship, but I was also thinking about the mission items we were about to sort, taking those items where they would go in the next weeks, and coming home to pack for our weekend trip. I will admit, I am the world’s worst, in any given situation, to be thinking about what comes next. I am always trying to plan what my next step should be so I am not caught off guard when that time comes. I think I even told the youth last spring during the Captivate service that I was thinking about Captivate that day, and their worship just brought me into the realm I needed to be.
Don’t get me wrong! Worship is a part of the service I truly enjoy. More times than not, I am right in there where I need to be, praising the Lord. Other times, my mind wanders. Due to my mind’s ability to do that, when I do make it there, it is because of an actual effort on my part to clear my mind at the beginning of service and think about nothing but God. Last night, it seemed like the Lord clearly said to me, “Don’t miss this moment thinking about the next”. Then, I thought, that is so true. How do we even know that we have a next moment? We have no guarantee of the next minute. One minute we are here; one minute we are gone. What if the Lord took me right this minute, and I missed the last moment to worship Him on earth by thinking about the next one?
And, so it goes. It doesn’t matter if the situation is worshipping the Lord, taking time to talk to someone, or just spending time with your family. Don’t miss this moment thinking about the next one. I pray I get many more “next moments”, but I also pray I can learn to focus on the one I am standing in first.
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