In the Blink of an Eye


We have all heard of things that happen in the blink of an eye.
Tragic stories where people diverted their attention for just a moment and the results were catastrophic.
Parents who were distracted in a public area while with their children and suddenly that child is nowhere to be found. Most of the time it only results in a few minutes of panic on both sides until they find each other again, but sometimes the momentary distraction ends up in child abduction.
Other parents have gone through the agony of finding their child floating in their pool because the phone rang and they stepped away to answer for just a minute or so.
In our modern age of mobile phones and texting, it is becoming more and more common where people take their eyes off the road only for an instant to look at a text or worse to answer a text and by the time they look back up their world has come to an end
All it takes is the blink of an eye and our world has changed forever.
We blink, we get distracted and take our eye off the prize, but God never blinks. God is always there for us.
As Joshua was being charged with taking over for Moses he was faced with two realities. He knew that when Moses went up to the mountain to receive the Law from God, the people of Israel, who had just been delivered from Egypt and plundered the Egyptians’ gold, turned away from God and made for themselves a golden calf. As a result a whole generation didn’t make into the Promised Land. On the other hand he was taking over for the man who delivered them from Pharaoh and had led them through 40 years of challenges in the desert. How could he take over for a man like that?
The answer came from God Himself:
As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. ( Josh 1:5)
We may blink, but God never does. If we suffer it is not because God wasn’t there with us, it is because we blink and take our eyes off of Him, not the other way around.
Think of how many times you should have been dead or how many times bad things should have befallen you and didn’t. It is because God didn’t blink.
Jesus, as he was getting ready to go back to the Father knew that the disciples felt that they were being abandoned. So in addition to giving them some last instruction concerning their commission, He also said this:
And surely I am with you alway , to the very end of the age." (Matt 28:20)
God never blinks.

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