More Than a Moment

The other day I came across a box of old Kodak photo slides. Some of you might remember those tiny little squares, no sound, no motion just one still image frozen in time. One smile. One sunset. One hug. That’s it. Just a single moment, captured forever.

And as I held that little frame up to the light, something struck me: as beautiful as that image was, it wasn’t the whole story. It didn’t show the moments before—the conversation that led to that smile. It didn’t show the moment that came after the hug, or the tears that followed the sunset. It captured just one second, but life is made up of so much more.

That’s how some of us are living right now. We’re stuck staring at one slide of our life. Maybe it’s a picture of pain, a season of disappointment, a failed relationship, a financial hardship, a diagnosis we didn’t expect. And we’re tempted to believe that’s the whole story. That this one moment is how the story ends.

But that slide you’re looking at it’s not the whole movie. It’s not even the trailer. Heaven’s camera is still rolling. The Bible says in Habakkuk 2:3, “For the vision is yet for an appointed time... Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.”

That means what you’re believing for, what you’ve been praying about, may not have shown up yet, but it’s coming. God has the timing worked out. The next scene is already written. You may feel stuck in the stillness, but heaven is still in motion.

If all we see is a snapshot, let us lift our eyes to the Cross—where the greatest moment of agony became the greatest act of redemption. The cross looked like the final frame of failure. But three days later, resurrection power changed everything. What looked like defeat was really the greatest victory the world had ever seen.

So don’t let a difficult frame convince you that the story is over. Your current frame is not your final scene. The Author is still writing. The Spirit is still moving. The vision awaits its appointed time. And the light of glory, when it breaks forth, will make sense of every shadow.