Life is speckled with defining moments that stand out when you turn and look back at the road you traveled. Usually the defining moment contained a choice you must make, and after making that choice your life is different in some way.
A defining moment for me that comes to mind is the day I pushed the publish button for this blog to go live. Since that day my writing journey went from stagnant to vibrant. In my women’s bible study group we are doing Andy Stanley’s video series on Defining Moments. The first three lessons are dealing with finances. The gist being “does your money own you?”. I’ve been having a hard time tuning in because I never pay much attention to my money. I never took a job for the amount of money I’d make or did a passionate project to make money. I kept thinking these lessons just don’t apply to me. Money is just not what drives anything I do. I firmly believe God gives me exactly what my family needs, always has, always will, and I don’t have to be occupied with thinking how I can go out and get more and more of it. (In an earlier blog I told you how God already settled lottery winning with me so that’s a non-issue.)
The question posed in our discussion group today was “Did you ever have a defining moment in your finances?”. I was sitting there thinking how this really doesn’t apply to me because I don’t pay attention to my finances……ah…there it is. I’m supposed to pay better attention to my finances. There are better ways I can save and give and pay my bills if I just take the the time and….the….self-discipline to sit down with my budget and work it instead of just haphazardly paying whatever’s due next.
Today I learned that God wastes no opportunity. God wastes no experience. God wastes no video or discussion question. Many times I brush things aside because I think they don’t apply directly to me and I’m anxious to move on to something that does. I need to patiently pay closer attention to things that cross my path and seem unrelated to me. God wastes nothing. There’s always a treasure or a lesson or a message in all He throws down in front of me. I’d say this is a defining moment.
And so, as another day goes by, sometimes it’s better to go splashing right through the puddle rather than skirting around it, and….I have written.
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