This Moment
July 242023|Papa God & Denae Roth
Wherever you're at whoever you are no matter what you're doing, this is a sacred moment. A moment worth dying for. I know, it's utterly hard to believe that this mundane moment that you randomly decided to pick up your phone and read this blog makes this very second worthy of the history books, but it's true. Even in the crazy, joyful chaos of life washing the dishes is a moment someone chose to die for. But not only die but rise again coming back to be the place that had rejected, killed, and forgotten Him. Just to be with you in this sacred mundane moment. At camp last week Jesus revealed a picture to me of His bloody body hung on the cross, bloody, broken, battered and bruised, pierced, spit on, and filled with the weight of our sins. I heard Him say "My love I died for this moment, the here and now and it is absolutely worth it. I have the past and future in my hands but what matters to me is you right here, right now. This moment to laugh with you and cry with you. To dance with you and fall with you. To be your present shepherd in the here and now. This moment Denae, this moment is sacred." I wept in His arms as he spoke these words over me. That this split second that passes in a wink of an eye was worth hours of agony so He could be close to every moment of our lives. We are so caught up in the worries of the future and the trauma of the past that we miss the here and now. I'm not saying that we are nuns and sit on the most uncomfortable chair we can find, sit on it all day and remember that each agonizing moment of discomfort is a sacred moment. Jesus's design is that we recognize Him in the humdrum (don't you love that word!) tasks of life we think of things that are pure honorable and admirable. And as our feet are on the ground our head is in the clouds focusing on Yeshua our beloved. Moments become sacred, Jesus is revealed through your love at the grocery store, strength is your clothing as you wash the dishes, and wisdom is your best friend amid hard conversations. Let's take back our ground, take back these precious moments that King Jesus died for. Let's realize the beauty of the mundane and releases Jesus into every second of our day. This moment matters.