I am very fussy about television if I watch it. I’m glad they’ve brought in things to record programmes you’d want to watch so my viewing options won’t be dictated by the running schedule.
Yet it is not always possible to screen out programmes that I would not usually watch. So for example recently the Dryden Family enjoyed an all too rare family weekend holiday. A TV was in our abode and one of my daughters turned on the thing to spend sometime in the company of John Barrowman in Tonight’s The Night.
I have never seen the programme in my life (in fact technically speaking I didn’t watch it as I was in another room at the time and overheard the audio elements of the programme). I picked up though that this was a bit like a combination of Surprise, Surprise and Jim’ll Fix It. People write in about someone they know whose been good in supportung something. The show then allows that person to have their ‘dream come true’ by performing with their hero. It is a feelgood programme and my girls were taken with it, thankfully for me it was the last in the current series.
Something in the show’s concept triggered something in me about the beauty of the accumulation of moments, rather than the quest for the high of a moment. After all, these good people doing their good works only have a relatively brief time to be prepared and perform with their hero. A short time in preparation for abrief moment. That works for some. That moment will eternall be etched in the memory as that moment when the event happened.
Nothing too much wrong with that really and it certainly has its perks. There is a thought, however, that there is something far more worthwhile in That Moment being part of an ongoing episodes of moments where each episode deepens and broadens the relationship.
Where am I going with this? We are invited to a series of moments in our walk with Jesus – indeed an eternity of moments built on the movement before that builds a picture and an awareness of who Jesus is. As we embrace those moments and are shaped into Christ by them, we don’t build up for a moment with someone we’ve admired from afar but will barely noticce us after This Moment. Rather, the gathered moments heighten our praise and wonder at the God we shall behold and eternally relish and appreciate, because this is the one we have spent time getting to know – personally.
So this is not to say avoid distant heroes on earth or dreams to meet them one day. This is saying there is the Ultimate Hero who we can know moment by moment until we shall behold Him face to face. We can know Him and be excited by his presence on a very regular basis, and the joy we experience can propel us on until that Moment arrives – a key that opens the door to that eternity of moments.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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