Moments can take your breath away... they can make your heart skip a couple beats... they can change your life.
If any of you have ever flown you know that feeling of inertia every time you take off and land... your body kind of sticks to the back of your seat as you move faster and faster and then suddenly the wheels lift off the ground and you're in the air... flying... but what I really like is when you can feel your body's gravity pulling you back to earth... you can feel the plane getting closer to the ground and then... touch down... I love those moments of impact... when it all hits you.
This whole semester I have been trying to listen to what God is saying... what He is trying to tell me... and on more than one occasion He has brought me to some huge but subtle moments. In a small group a couple months ago we talked about God winks... what some people might call coincidences... but I believe they are God winks. When He is showing you something or trying to tell you something and you just aren't getting it... He sends you a wink. Have you ever read the book of Ruth and noticed how over and over again it says, "It just so happened..." or "As it turned out..."
You see the Bible delivers some pretty clear messages... but then it is also full of God winks too... small little details that someone points out to you or you notice as you're reading that just really hit the nail on the head.... and those little details just deliver the message that God has been trying to send to you... but this time it was in a small wink.
So in the book of Ruth we find that Naomi has lost her husband and two sons, she has told her two daughter-in-laws to return home to their families... but Ruth doesn't. She stays with Naomi and she sticks it out. So Naomi and Ruth are working to get food and such and Naomi sends Ruth to this field of a relative to get grain... well, "As it turned out she was working in the field of Boaz" and that moment changed Ruth's life forever... Ruth and Boaz end up married, Naomi is overjoyed Ruth has found a new husband and home, and the rest is history...
So you see I think sometimes we really pray for God to send us HUGE moments that knock us off our feet... when really we should be praising Him for the winks He sends us... Kind of like Ruth... she could have prayed for God to send her a new husband right away when Mahlon, her first husband, died. She could have left Naomi and gone back home... but she didn't ... she wasn't thinking about herself and what she wanted... and then God brought her that wink... that moment in Boaz' field... that moment of impact.
So today.. take some time to reflect on what God has been showing you... maybe some of the things you have been missing... the winks that have been subtle... and praise Him for those moments of impact.
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