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The Decisive Moment

Application in your life:

  • When the body of a Syrian boy washed up on shore in 2015, a Turkish journalist snapped photos which drew attention from the media. "The whole world seemed to care," noted BBC. An old adage says that "A picture is worth a thousand words".
  • The brain processes print on a page at a hundred bits per second, while pictures process in our brains at billion bits per second. So technically, a picture is worth ten million words. If your life was put together in a film, what would be the climactic moments or decisive moments where everything changed?
  • Our decisive moments have a generational impact. For us to experience these decisive moments we first must take action. Inaction is an action. Indecision is a decision.
  • We all have heard of Kodak moment. The company Eastman Kodak Company not only controlled 85% of camera sales but was also one of the five most profitable brands in America. A decade later they stopped turning a profit and filed for bankruptcy in 2012. What happened? Kodak didn't adjust to new technology and kept doing things the way they have always been done. They missed the decisive moment to learn and grow. You could say they missed the Kodak Moment. 
  • Inertia was discovered by Richard Feynman, one of the ten greatest physicists of all time. When he was a boy he asked his dad why did the ball in his wagon go forward and backwarda the way it did. His dad said nobody knew. This was Richards decisive moment, throughout his entire life he had to take intricate and critical steps to become one of the greatest physicists of all time. Just like a good carpenter, you must measure twice and cut once. You can't be afraid to make mistakes it is a balancing act.

Biggest Takeaway:

  • If you want God to do something new, you can't keep doing the same old thing. Don't miss your Kodak Moment because you are inside doing what you have always been doing. Just like in Matthew 14:22-33, you must be like Peter. You must be able to jump out of the boat and experience what God has to do with you and for you. 


Quotes:

  1. Experience leads to instincts.
  2. Sometimes the greatest opposition to what God wants to do next comes from those who were on the cutting edge of what God did last.
  3. Inaction is an action.

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