How in the world do we do the Christian life? Impossible. The past just keeps haunting and the future is simply too daunting. But what if there is a place where real life can happen? How about “now?” Just a thought… Love and Blessings, scot
Appendix D:On “Now”
From 12 January 2011
Disclaimer… Hey, don’t take the following toooo seriously.However, do take a moment to consider the possibility that “now” is a special time.Now…Right now.Now is a pretty strange, but very important, place.Every aspect of life collapses to a point.All the good – all the bad – and everything in between fuse into a singularity of the moment.The past is gone.The future does not yet exist.If I’m not mistaken, few of us humans ever really live “right now.”But…
Whhhooooshhh!!!!!….. The dreams fade; it’s not quite dawn.SomeOne says:“Wake up Scot.”“Huh?”I stir.“What time is it?”He answers, “Now Scot.It is right now.I AM here and there is nothing else in this place but you and Me.”What?I can’t quite figure out what the Presence is talking about.There is so much to do – I have so many past issues beginning to crowd into my head.I think I hear SomeOne speak, but the Voice is starting to fade.Oh, whatever!I gotta get up and get going.So much to do, so little time to…FFFFFFFWWWWUMMMMPP.
Everything stops.
I am suddenly back in this place.It is so very incredibly quiet.Calm.Simple.It is Spartan but far from incomplete and the smell is subtly marked by the absence of any contaminants.I feel a most-comforting coolness; like walking in under the shade of a huge tree on a bright early summer’s day.I can see with uncanny clarity.It is as if I am (and I really am) lying still in my bed, but am experiencing everything in a different space.Suddenly it hits me.What is noticeably absent is the passage of time (weird… I can still hear my clock ticking, but its sound is oddly irrelevant).
Oh wow.What – Is – This?
“Where am I?”He answers, “‘now’.You are quite simply in the moment between past and future.This is just the first occasion that you have come fully to this place.Right now, the past may not impinge and the future cannot overshadow.It is the synapse – an infinitesimal gap – between what was and what will be.This is: Is.Do you understand?”
Part of me does.That part of me which longs to meet Him, to be in complete communion with Him…
Still, my mind is flooded with questions.Some of the questions are distracting and seem only to serve as catalysts to drive me away from this wonderful place.However, it seems just as clear that others – if answered – promise to reveal deep insight into what it all means.Why is it so quiet and calm?Why am I not worried?How come I feel no pain?From where comes this unclouded thinking?Where are my doubts, my regrets… my shame?I love you Lord with all my heart, soul, mind and strength.How is this happening?Where does this incredible sense of power and well-being come from?
I think I’m getting it… (for the moment)
“Now” is an infinitely small space.Only infinite things can exist there.Fallen, temporal things just plain do – not – fit.Only God and the final stuff of reality (our relationship with Him) can go there. “Now” surely does intersect with real life, but past and future are ever removed from the present.And as we dwell in the presence of an Infinitely Powerful and All-Loving God in that moment, we are made able to more than overcome the past.In Him we are prepared for overwhelming victory in the future.Ovid said it well:“The two of us, we form a multitude.”But God said it better in Romans 8:37, “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”
My prayer is that you may enjoy a big, giant, heaping portion of “now” from Him.
Mak is just a guy who is in Love with Jesus and his wife and kids. He writes about the amazing things that G_d is doing in our lives. May you be blessed and encouraged.
