Live Between the Steps

Monday, 25 April 2011
'This is the day the Lord has made...'Psalm 118:24 NKJV

There's a built-in danger in goal-setting. What is it? It's believing we'll only be happy when we reach those goals. We tell ourselves, 'When I graduate, get married, have children, own my own home', and so on, so we keep postponing life.

A university professor tells of being invited to speak at a military base and meeting a soldier named Ralph at the airport. After they introduced themselves they headed towards baggage claim. As they walked down the concourse Ralph kept disappearing, once to help an older woman whose suitcase had fallen open, once to lift up two toddlers so they could see Santa Claus, and again to give directions to someone who was lost. Each time he came back with a big smile on his face. 'Where did you learn to live like that?' the professor asked. 'Oh,' Ralph said, 'during the war, I guess.' Then he told the professor about his last tour of duty, how it was his job to detect mines, and how he watched his friends blown up before his eyes, one after another. 'I learned to live between steps,' he said. 'I never knew whether the next step would be my last, so I learned to get everything I could out of the moment between when I picked up my foot and put it down again. Every step I took was a whole new world, and I guess I've been living that way ever since.'

Ralph had it right! To get the most out of living we must live by the Scripture: 'This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.'


*** It's been while since I posted my devotions here it really felt revolting after quite sometime. I am saving a few pages of my journal because I haven't got enough time buying one these past few days. =P

There were some people who visited us this weekend from Whangarei whom are friends with my mother. I have never seen them before and they stayed for 2 nights in the house. I was just quite resentful at first because I have other plans but took it plainly before they got here. And this devotion reminded me that in every situation live faithfully and happily. Which I did. I am not sure about the other members of the family but I actually kind of like those people. They were nice when you get to know them. The reaching out part will always come from someone first.

Helping them in little ways, helping other people in some kind of way, is a bliss. When you know that you have done something to make another happy it is what we call living. I am merely living right now and I want to experience the fullness of God's joy through other people. I may never know when is my last breath. Last week I almost had a road accident. The almost part gives me chills but God's protection is so divine it didn't even happened (but thinking what could have been is awful). Living and letting others live is such a happy place. We are living in a battlefield of lost hopes, rejections, hurts and pains. The valleys are long and the nights dark. I have so much to learn about this but guess what? God is not finished with me yet and so He is with you..