Wow, I haven't posted in a long time. So, today seems like a great day to get back on track. I picked up a book by Paul Tripp entitled Whiter than Snow: Meditations on Sin and Mercy. This book is a great book to read annually if not semi-annually. To be honest, it has been too long since I last read this book. Here is what Paul Tripp says in chapter one that convicts me today:
"We all live in an endless series of little moments. The character of a life isn't set in ten big moments. The character of life is set in ten thousand little moments of everyday life. It's the themes of struggles that emerge from those little moments that reveal what's really going on in our hearts."
My question is this: what are the little choices that I make every day that reflect my character? What is going on in my heart? For me it is the things that I say that are good, but in my heart I think something totally different. For example, I will say that my kids are a result of the Grace of God. This is true. But in my heart I will think in a prideful way, yea but look what I did. Now, I know the value of both/and in this situation. God has been gracious to use my wife and I as we raise our kids. The problem is more in my heart. It has to do with my pride.
What have your little moments been lately? Have you had a moment to push the pause button in your life to seek to understand what is going on inside? I realize that if I indeed want to finish the race, my little moments need to be evaluated and brought under the submission of God on a daily basis.
