Just a moment....

I wanted to share this excerpt from Max Lucado "It's not about ME" . I keep flagging sections to go back and read again. This particular section spoke so deeply to me:

The brevity of life grants power to abide, not an excuse to bail. Fleeting days don't justify fleeing problems. Fleeting days strengthen us to endure problems. Will your problems pass? No guarantee they will. Will your pain cease? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But heaven gives us this promise: "our light affliction, which is for but a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Corinthians 4:17 nkjv)
The words "weight of glory" conjure up images of the ancient pan scale. Remember the blindfolded lady of justice? She holds a pan scale-two pans, one on either side of the needle. The weight of a purchase would be determined by placing weights on one side and the purchase on the other.
God does the same with your struggles, On one side He stacks all your burdens. Famines. Firings. Parents who forgot you. Bosses who ignore you.Bad breaks, bad health, bad days. Stack them up and watch one side of the pan scale plummet.
Now witness Gods response. Does He remove them? Eliminate the burdens? No, rather then take them, He offsets them. He places an eternal weight of glory on the other side. Endless joy. Measureless peace. An eternity of Him. Watch what happens when He sets eternity on your scale.
Everything changes! the burdens lift. The heavy becomes light when weighed against eternity. If life is "just a moment" can't we endure any challenge for a moment?
We can be sick for just a moment.
We can be lonely for just a moment.
We can be persecuted for just a moment.
We can struggle for just a moment.
Can't we?
Can't we wait for our peace? It's not about us anyway. And it's certainly not about now.

-It's not about Me
By Max Lucado
chapter 5 pg54-56

......reading that was like a light bulb moment for me. It's not easy to think of our HUGE issues as being just a moment within a moment, but it is....

All of it is only a moment. This earth, these bodies, they are not our home. He paid the price to assure that with His blood, the least I can do is accept His gift and humbly surrender every moment on this fleeting earth to Him, and His will.