IN SLOW MOTION
A couple of years ago, I put a plastic bag filled with old clothes and rags on the top shelf of my closet. I didn’t realize when I put the bag there that it was leaning forward slightly. It was sitting on some other items that were also leaning forward, ever so slightly. So, as soon as I released the bag from my hands, even though the movement was undetectable to the naked eye, that bag was slowly-but-surely moving … gravity was pulling it downward. Later that night, around 2:00 a.m. I heard a crash in my room. It startled me so badly that I sat straight up in my bed. At first I thought we had a burglar in our house. But, after I wiped the sleep from my eyes and turned on the lights, I discovered that plastic bag full of clothes and rags on the floor in front of my closet. It had been falling from the moment I left it on the shelf hours earlier, but I didn’t realize it until I heard the crash, some six-to-eight hours later.
If you were to ask me, “When did that bag fall?” my first response might have been, “At 2:00 in the morning.” But, in truth, the bag fell the moment I put it in the closet. It all just happened in slow motion. The full manifestation of the fall happened at 2:00 a.m. but the bag had already been falling for hours.
You know, God told Adam and Eve to not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. He told them that the day they ate from it they would “surely die.” Whether you realize it or not, when they ate that fruit they died. Of course, initially it was a spiritual death but it later manifested in a physical death as well. The bag that fell from my closet was falling from the moment I put it there. Adam and Eve were dying from the moment they ate the fruit. If you need to look at it this way, this might help you … it all happened in SLOW MOTION. You see, in God’s eyes, time is irrelevant. The Bible says “A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day” in God’s eyes (2 Peter 3:8).
Romans 6:23 tells us that the wages of sin is death. But, because we don’t keel over dead the instant we commit sin, we assume that scripture is not true. Oh, but it is true. The moment we sin, death begins its work in us … just like a bag slowly falling toward the ground in slow motion. I sort of wonder if maybe God set it up that way to give us a little time to repent for our sins? After all, if we died the second we sinned, there’d be no opportunity to repent and get right with Him. I like to think about God’s mercy in that way … that He slowed down the whole process of time so we’d have an opportunity to make adjustments in our lives and receive His grace and mercy.
But, I’d be wrong to leave you at this point without telling you the positive side of this message. You see, it’s not just the bad things that happen in SLOW MOTION in our lives … it also applies to the good things, as well. When we pray for a loved one for salvation, for healing, for peace, etc., rarely does it manifest the second we pray it … but the whole thing is set into motion as soon as the prayer leaves our lips. Several time in His ministry, Jesus talked about God’s kingdom by relating it to a seed. Seeds work in slow motion. So much of what happens with a seed isn’t seen by the naked eye. It happens underground. It goes almost undetected. Slowly but surely the seed grows and finally pushes through the soil to expose the plant that will grow upward and eventually produce a crop.
So, you see, there is a lot happening right this very minute in your life. The problem is that most of it goes completely undetected … because it’s all happening in SLOW MOTION.
2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
A couple of years ago, I put a plastic bag filled with old clothes and rags on the top shelf of my closet. I didn’t realize when I put the bag there that it was leaning forward slightly. It was sitting on some other items that were also leaning forward, ever so slightly. So, as soon as I released the bag from my hands, even though the movement was undetectable to the naked eye, that bag was slowly-but-surely moving … gravity was pulling it downward. Later that night, around 2:00 a.m. I heard a crash in my room. It startled me so badly that I sat straight up in my bed. At first I thought we had a burglar in our house. But, after I wiped the sleep from my eyes and turned on the lights, I discovered that plastic bag full of clothes and rags on the floor in front of my closet. It had been falling from the moment I left it on the shelf hours earlier, but I didn’t realize it until I heard the crash, some six-to-eight hours later.
If you were to ask me, “When did that bag fall?” my first response might have been, “At 2:00 in the morning.” But, in truth, the bag fell the moment I put it in the closet. It all just happened in slow motion. The full manifestation of the fall happened at 2:00 a.m. but the bag had already been falling for hours.
You know, God told Adam and Eve to not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. He told them that the day they ate from it they would “surely die.” Whether you realize it or not, when they ate that fruit they died. Of course, initially it was a spiritual death but it later manifested in a physical death as well. The bag that fell from my closet was falling from the moment I put it there. Adam and Eve were dying from the moment they ate the fruit. If you need to look at it this way, this might help you … it all happened in SLOW MOTION. You see, in God’s eyes, time is irrelevant. The Bible says “A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day” in God’s eyes (2 Peter 3:8).
Romans 6:23 tells us that the wages of sin is death. But, because we don’t keel over dead the instant we commit sin, we assume that scripture is not true. Oh, but it is true. The moment we sin, death begins its work in us … just like a bag slowly falling toward the ground in slow motion. I sort of wonder if maybe God set it up that way to give us a little time to repent for our sins? After all, if we died the second we sinned, there’d be no opportunity to repent and get right with Him. I like to think about God’s mercy in that way … that He slowed down the whole process of time so we’d have an opportunity to make adjustments in our lives and receive His grace and mercy.
But, I’d be wrong to leave you at this point without telling you the positive side of this message. You see, it’s not just the bad things that happen in SLOW MOTION in our lives … it also applies to the good things, as well. When we pray for a loved one for salvation, for healing, for peace, etc., rarely does it manifest the second we pray it … but the whole thing is set into motion as soon as the prayer leaves our lips. Several time in His ministry, Jesus talked about God’s kingdom by relating it to a seed. Seeds work in slow motion. So much of what happens with a seed isn’t seen by the naked eye. It happens underground. It goes almost undetected. Slowly but surely the seed grows and finally pushes through the soil to expose the plant that will grow upward and eventually produce a crop.
So, you see, there is a lot happening right this very minute in your life. The problem is that most of it goes completely undetected … because it’s all happening in SLOW MOTION.
2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
IN SLOW MOTION
A couple of years ago, I put a plastic bag filled with old clothes and rags on the top shelf of my closet. I didn’t realize when I put the bag there that it was leaning forward slightly. It was sitting on some other items that were also leaning forward, ever so slightly. So, as soon as I released the bag from my hands, even though the movement was undetectable to the naked eye, that bag was slowly-but-surely moving … gravity was pulling it downward. Later that night, around 2:00 a.m. I heard a crash in my room. It startled me so badly that I sat straight up in my bed. At first I thought we had a burglar in our house. But, after I wiped the sleep from my eyes and turned on the lights, I discovered that plastic bag full of clothes and rags on the floor in front of my closet. It had been falling from the moment I left it on the shelf hours earlier, but I didn’t realize it until I heard the crash, some six-to-eight hours later.
If you were to ask me, “When did that bag fall?” my first response might have been, “At 2:00 in the morning.” But, in truth, the bag fell the moment I put it in the closet. It all just happened in slow motion. The full manifestation of the fall happened at 2:00 a.m. but the bag had already been falling for hours.
You know, God told Adam and Eve to not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. He told them that the day they ate from it they would “surely die.” Whether you realize it or not, when they ate that fruit they died. Of course, initially it was a spiritual death but it later manifested in a physical death as well. The bag that fell from my closet was falling from the moment I put it there. Adam and Eve were dying from the moment they ate the fruit. If you need to look at it this way, this might help you … it all happened in SLOW MOTION. You see, in God’s eyes, time is irrelevant. The Bible says “A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day” in God’s eyes (2 Peter 3:8).
Romans 6:23 tells us that the wages of sin is death. But, because we don’t keel over dead the instant we commit sin, we assume that scripture is not true. Oh, but it is true. The moment we sin, death begins its work in us … just like a bag slowly falling toward the ground in slow motion. I sort of wonder if maybe God set it up that way to give us a little time to repent for our sins? After all, if we died the second we sinned, there’d be no opportunity to repent and get right with Him. I like to think about God’s mercy in that way … that He slowed down the whole process of time so we’d have an opportunity to make adjustments in our lives and receive His grace and mercy.
But, I’d be wrong to leave you at this point without telling you the positive side of this message. You see, it’s not just the bad things that happen in SLOW MOTION in our lives … it also applies to the good things, as well. When we pray for a loved one for salvation, for healing, for peace, etc., rarely does it manifest the second we pray it … but the whole thing is set into motion as soon as the prayer leaves our lips. Several time in His ministry, Jesus talked about God’s kingdom by relating it to a seed. Seeds work in slow motion. So much of what happens with a seed isn’t seen by the naked eye. It happens underground. It goes almost undetected. Slowly but surely the seed grows and finally pushes through the soil to expose the plant that will grow upward and eventually produce a crop.
So, you see, there is a lot happening right this very minute in your life. The problem is that most of it goes completely undetected … because it’s all happening in SLOW MOTION.
2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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