BE IN THE MOMENT
By: Ron Hubbard
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: take your everyday, ordinary life; your sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking around life and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well formed maturity in you.
Romans 12:1-2 MSG
It’s amazing how fast time goes by as I get older. I’m sure we all heard it from our parents growing up, “Just wait ‘til you get our age, time goes by really fast.” When I would hear them say that as a kid, I blew them off like some of you probably did. Well, it’s true: life is busy. Especially if you have kids, work full time, and maybe even have work quotas to meet, deadlines to hit, and then you throw kids sports in the mix, etc. You know what I’m talking about!
It was a year or two ago that I first heard this song and recently the Lord brought it back to my remembrance. These lyrics remind me to keep my focus on what truly matters:
BREATHE, JUST BREATHE
COME AND REST AT MY FEET
AND BE, JUST BE
CHAOS CALLS BUT ALL YOU REALLY NEED
IS TO TAKE IT IN, FILL YOUR LUNGS
THE PEACE OF GOD THAT OVERCOMES
JUST BREATHE (JUST BREATHE)
LET YOUR WEARY SPIRIT REST
LAY DOWN WHAT’S GOOD AND FIND WHAT’S BEST
JUST BREATHE (JUST BREATHE)*
One of my customers is 77 years old and he loves talking sports with me. He’s even told me all about his glory days playing ball in college, and how he was a professor at UC for 30 years. On this particular day, I could tell it blessed him that I was listening to his story. A couple days later, I met with him again and he wanted to show me his basketball, football, and baseballs. Instantly, I felt the Lord wanted me to toss football with him.
In that moment, God showed me that He gives us so many opportunities to show His love to others, but most of the time we are too busy to notice His voice. It’s so easy to get caught up in the “get ‘er done” mindset — but we are truly called to be His love and light everywhere we go. God is speaking to us in so many ways every day. Make it a point today to NOT miss His voice. Overwhelm someone today with His love!!
* Jonny Diaz. “Breathe.” Sweetness & Sorrow, Essential Music Publishing, Capitol Christian Music Group, 2018.
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: take your everyday, ordinary life; your sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking around life and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well formed maturity in you.
Romans 12:1-2 MSG
It’s amazing how fast time goes by as I get older. I’m sure we all heard it from our parents growing up, “Just wait ‘til you get our age, time goes by really fast.” When I would hear them say that as a kid, I blew them off like some of you probably did. Well, it’s true: life is busy. Especially if you have kids, work full time, and maybe even have work quotas to meet, deadlines to hit, and then you throw kids sports in the mix, etc. You know what I’m talking about!
It was a year or two ago that I first heard this song and recently the Lord brought it back to my remembrance. These lyrics remind me to keep my focus on what truly matters:
BREATHE, JUST BREATHE
COME AND REST AT MY FEET
AND BE, JUST BE
CHAOS CALLS BUT ALL YOU REALLY NEED
IS TO TAKE IT IN, FILL YOUR LUNGS
THE PEACE OF GOD THAT OVERCOMES
JUST BREATHE (JUST BREATHE)
LET YOUR WEARY SPIRIT REST
LAY DOWN WHAT’S GOOD AND FIND WHAT’S BEST
JUST BREATHE (JUST BREATHE)*
One of my customers is 77 years old and he loves talking sports with me. He’s even told me all about his glory days playing ball in college, and how he was a professor at UC for 30 years. On this particular day, I could tell it blessed him that I was listening to his story. A couple days later, I met with him again and he wanted to show me his basketball, football, and baseballs. Instantly, I felt the Lord wanted me to toss football with him.
In that moment, God showed me that He gives us so many opportunities to show His love to others, but most of the time we are too busy to notice His voice. It’s so easy to get caught up in the “get ‘er done” mindset — but we are truly called to be His love and light everywhere we go. God is speaking to us in so many ways every day. Make it a point today to NOT miss His voice. Overwhelm someone today with His love!!
* Jonny Diaz. “Breathe.” Sweetness & Sorrow, Essential Music Publishing, Capitol Christian Music Group, 2018.