Strategic Moments

History classrooms seemed like a waste to some, but not for me.  History classrooms are filled with the names of important people, dates to be remembered, and a host of details.  It is always interesting to read history with current day hindsight which illuminates the way certain events from the past gave direction to the future.  It is also interesting to remember our own history through such a lens and realize the way certain moments were strategic in getting us where we are.

 

How did we get to where we are?  How did we get from Point A to Point Whatever?  Would life have been different had some of those moments been different?  Would a different history have sent our life in a different direction?   As we reflect with this looking glass which sees the past, we see the importance of our choices.  A different choice in a particular moment would likely mean a different moment in our present.

 

But, another thing we surely see is the shaping and directing hand of God.  He, too, had a plan for our life to which He has always been seeking to take us.  His plan may, or may not be, as specific as the place we end up living as it is with the way we spend the energy of our lives.  To look back is to see strategic moments when He began to take us in the direction of living in such a way that our lives count for the cause of the Kingdom.  This look behind also makes us to see that even in the moment of wrong choices, He still persists in leading us to the place where our life becomes something other than a wasted trip.  God does not give up on us.