Moments

Lately I've been thinking about moments. There are times in our lives where we can only define them in a collective understanding of seasons or moments. It is not just an instant, but it's a matter of moments. Consider the life of Joseph.

Joseph was be-bopping his way to deliver a message to his brothers, decked out in his colorful coat, and in moments he was in a cistern listening to the coat torn to shreds. From the darkness of the cistern he hears his brothers plotting his death, and in moments he's hoisted up and sold to the Ishmaelites. He's in prison and in moments he's called to stand in front of Pharoah, and it's only moments later that he is second in command to the world's foremost developed civilization.

You never know what the next moments are going to bring; bottom to top or top to bottom. The most important thing is to settle what your life and faith is built on. If it is founded in God then come what may you can be sure it will be for his purposes. If it is founded on you or others, than when moments change your situation you must depend on the fickleness and instability of your center.

Because your low moments today may be setting up your high moments tomorrow, or in just a moment.

--Ben