Even in the little moments . . .

As I was spending some time on my poor neglected email inbox this evening I came across a blog post of Nathan Johnson's from last month.  I found this portion especially challenging.  How often do I rush through my life, breezing past opportunities that God has for me to simply be His hands and feet, a channel of His love, an encouragement to those around me?  How often do I treat the little moments as unimportant?  How often do I give less than my best, giving in to laziness?  What am I missing?  

I hope the following is both a challenge and an encouragement to you.  It takes a serious laziness-kicking attitude to live intentionally in every moment, but it also adds such a depth of richness and purpose to life when we realize that the mundane is actually an opportunity for the world to be changed by His love and power.  For the full blog post I took this from, visit:http://deeperchristian.com/creating-ripples-of-change/.  Enjoy!  :)

“What if we allowed the Holy Spirit to use us to speak truth and pour the love of Jesus on every person we bumped into--no matter how long we had with them?

What if those long afternoon conversations with your family or close friends were used for God’s purposes?  What about those few moments you have with the cashier at your grocery store?  Jesus had this mindset.  Every person He came in contact with was seen as the most important person of His day.  He didn’t rush by some one in order to do “more important things”, He viewed the world through the lens of the Father and wanted to pour His life out for each person He met.  Whether it was through healing a disease, preaching a sermon, casting out a demon, or embracing a child, Jesus was constantly investing in others and changing their lives.  Those lives in turn, had a far reaching effects. . . .

Who is it that Jesus wants to touch through you?  Who does He want you to speak to that He might use your lips to speak truth?  Who is it in your life that you don’t know (yet) that you will encounter later today that He wants to wrap your arms around and encourage through a hug?  Realize that every person you encounter is an opportunity for Jesus to pour Himself into.  He wants to use your life as a vessel of His truth, a channel of His love, a demonstration of His power, a picture of His life.  We must be willing for Jesus to bleed, suffer, die, and live through us in order for the world to be turned upside down.  Every person we see today is someone Jesus desperately wants to reach, embrace, transform.  Could we be His instruments in their lives?  Could those same people go on to radically change the world?

Jesus is using you to create ripples in this world through the tiny encounters you have every day.  Don’t take them for granted.”