I started Chasing Daylight by Erwin McManus last night. I’ve made a commitment to take notes and highlight stuff that sticks out to me, and by blogging those thoughts it kind of forces me to keep up with the book. I tend to jump from book to book.
I don’t know what good stuff lies ahead in chapter 1, so we’ll see if there is a part 2 (check back!)…
- Chapter 1 so far deals with choices and what we do with the moments that we are given.
- There are things that must be done today, things that you and you alone were created to accomplish. Some of us are wasting our time burning daylight when what we need to be doing is seizing the power of every moment.
[This is how I feel in my current ministry/career “moment”] - Somehow we all know that to play it safe is to lose the game. By definition an adventure is “an undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.” In other words, it comes at great risk and at significant cost!
- Moments are as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sands in the sea, and any of them could prove to be your most significant divine moments. Within those moments, a handful will become the defining moments in your life. However mundane a moment may appear, the miraculous may wait to be unwrapped within it.
- When you seize divine moments, you instigate an atomic reaction. You become a human catalyst a divine impact. The result can be earthshaking! [Oh, how I want to be a human catalyst…a divine impact!]
- Even the subtle shift from receiving Jesus to following Jesus is significant. The first allows us to remain stationary as God comes to us; the second demands our moving with God.
- One of the reasons that we are unprepared for the moments before us is that we’re stuck in a moment behind us…To relive the past is to relinquish the future…When you choose to remain stuck in a moment, you become incapable of seizing divine moments…We were not created to walk backward into the future.
- Moments carry the momentum of the past and fuel the momentum for the future…Learning from the past informs and prepares us to seize divine moments…the mystery of a moment, it is small enough to ignore (like Atoms the smallest particles) and big enough to change your life forever (like when Atoms react with Fission and produce atomic power).