Matt and I have been going through some premarital counseling courses which have been amazing. In the middle of one of the courses, Paul Tripp talks about how your marriage will be made up of the little moments. Sure there will be some big make it or break it decisions, but mostly it will consist in the little day-to-day interactions. The truth in that statement totally struck me.
The little daily interactions are the legacy you and I leave behind. How I behave in the day to day. How well I make you feel loved. How interested I am in your life as opposed to mine. How much daily courtesy , kindness and grace I give in the mundane. How well I choose to be kind and extend grace when you hurt me.
I have always loved the story of Esther and the famous verse- “And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
The story is glamorous.
God exalts a beautiful obedient girl to a position of power to provide deliverance for the Jews. Esther has power and prestige and courageously steps out for God, risking her own comfort. Her destiny is dictated by that single moment of obedience, which leads to dramatic, visible results.
I guess I always wanted to be like Esther. To have my legacy determined by one single life changing decision that yielded immediate return.
Certainly there will be many people whose legacies will be determined by a single moment of obedience. God will work major miracles through some in that way. However, for the majority of us, one moment of obedience will not lead to the freedom of a group of people.
We are called to humble ourselves in the day-to-day comings and goings of life, in many moments where the obedience will produce no visible glamorous results. Every time I choose to see the lovely in the unlovely or not strike back when hurt, the result will not be the freedom of a people group.
The reality of an obedient life and marriage made up of those daily grace-filled interactions is far less glamorous than the glamour queen in me would like to imagine it would be. Less glamorous but also more lovely. Our lives will be determined by our day-to-day interactions.
In God’s economy the weak are the strong. The mundane is the pivotal. The small is the big.
The momentary is the lasting.
‘For such a time as this’ is not a singular moment but the everyday.
Backwards is forwards, the unimportant is the important.
The momentary is the lasting.
nothing is as glamourous and exciting as love for the Truth. humility in the momentary is an exhalted life full of love and opposition. regards from backwardsville.