The Moment

Jeremiah 1:9

Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Then the Lord reached out and touched the mouth of Jeremiah.

This was a moment!

This was a moment between God and Jeremiah.

A gentle moment…

A precious moment…

A hushed moment!

In this moment, God became a physical being. The scripture says that God reached out and touched Jeremiah. He touched Jeremiah’s mouth. The hands and fingers of Jeremiah’s Creator touched the mouth of one He had created.

In this moment, Jeremiah was in direct connection to the God of the Universe.

In this moment, all other things faded to the background. All his questions; all his fears disappeared in this one moment…just this one MOMENT!

Like the moment when a mother wants to gently capture the attention of her child wanting her child’s full and focused attention. In that moment, she takes her finger and gently places it on her child’s lips causing a quiet hush.

I sat quietly, my mind tortured with a decision affecting the balance of my life. As I tossed back and forth, I cried out to God to speak to me.

“God…I need a moment. I need a moment with you where I can know that You created me for purpose…for reason.”

The doctor said that the surgery was optional. He said that it was possible they could cut into my brain only to find they could not help me.

Sitting in that moment, I needed God more than ever. I needed Him and I to have a moment when I could feel His touch; find safety in His arms.

As the darkness blanketed the sky, the moon rose to take its position. As it anchored itself in the night, it made its way to an opening in my window. In my desperate moment peering through the window, the moon which God had created made its way into my being as if it was a spokesman of God…

“It will be okay my child.”

Standing on the edge of a canyon,

Or gazing into the depth of an ocean,

Or holding the miracle of life in our arms are

…moments!

Moments when God can shake our world into existence; moments when God says…I AM GOD!

It is within those moments that we agonize with the Truth. We wrestle with the very God who brought us into existence. The God who created us to walk with Him, to laugh with Him, to cry with Him.

It is in that moment when the tension of choice rises within our chest…Do I?

Do I surrender to the God who is calling me into a relationship with Him?

Do I walk away navigating through life within my own capacity?

There are days when I simply do not understand why God wants ME? Sure…I understand that He created me, but why does He want to walk with me? Why does He want to sit beside me? Why does He even want to know me? Why?

Standing on the edge longing for this moment, my mind presses on with the fears and anxieties that torture my soul. If I could rummage through the debris of my fears and find just one glimpse of hope; one glimpse of light beckoning me to follow.

As I wade to the end of my being here on earth, I look back and reflect on that moment with God when He spoke in the darkness of the night. But as I gather my days, I can see many moments that can be defined by God touching my lips. Within each of these moments, my choice to grow deeper with Him was a question posed. Will I allow this moment to change my being, or will this moment be just “a” moment causing no movement closer to my Maker? My heart becomes saddened knowing I did not capture the essence of each moment as a moment with God.

What is YOUR moment?

Did you capture the very essence of God within that moment?

It is never too late to lasso THE MOMENT!

Written by Melody Westbrook. 
Melody Westbrook is the founder of The Walk Ministries, a ministry designed to bring women together through God’s story. She was a pastor’s wife for 35 years and has authored the book The Walk Back to Eden. She is a communicator who loves to tell God’s story written within each of us while using her personal experience of a broken marriage and childhood survivor of abuse to communicate God’s redemption story. She loves teaching real women real stories of real life from God’s word. You can find her at http://facebook.com/thewalk.edw/ 
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