I’ve told the story before of talking impatiently with my wife one Sunday morning and having my nine year old son interject, "Daddy, is this the way a Christian man should be talking to his wife?"
Rather sarcastically I said, "What do you think?"and he replied " It doesn’t make any difference what I think, what does God think?’
I went into my bedroom and two thoughts immediately hit me. First, my pride reared up. I want to be a hero to my son and I was embarrassed that he had been troubled by my attitude and words. Secondly, God was in that moment, working to continue his moment-by-moment work of transforming my heart in the mundane happenings of life.
The fact of the matter is that the transforming work of grace is more of a mundane process than it is a series of a few dramatic events. Personal heart and life change is always a process. And where does that process take place? It takes place where you and I live everyday. Our lives don’t careen from one big moment to another. No we all live in the utterly mundane.
You see, the character of a life is not set in a two or three dramatic moments but in 10,000 little moments. The character that was formed in those little moments is what shapes how to respond to the big moments of life.
Are you careful about those 10,000 small moments?
Paul Tripp
Author/Bible Teacher
www.paultrippministries.com
Changi Chapel 
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