The Aha Moment

An Aha moment is a moment of clarity when an individual realizes the one thing that really matters in any given situation. It is an instant when an answer to a problem is revealed.

Students who have Aha moments transcend from being average to excellent in their academic performance. Athletes who have Aha moments go from being losers to winners on the field through preparation, practice, and hard work. Children have Aha moments when they mature and realize the advice and good counsel that they received from their parents really does make sense as they experience life. In the corporate environment, workers or professionals who have Aha moments go from mediocrity to very good in their work performance.

Even in regards to our relationship with God, there is an Aha moment: The Apostle Paul had an Aha moment on the road to Damascus when a light from heaven shined on him, he fell off his donkey, lost temporary vision and Jesus spoke to him (John 9:3). After this, Paul went from persecuting the Saints to preaching the Gospel of Christ. God would later use him to minister to the gentiles (non Jews) and to write a great portion of the New Testament scripture through his Epistles.

The woman at the well had an Aha moment when she came to know that the person who asked her for a drink was in fact – Jesus Christ (John 4:7). The Bible says she dropped her water pot and evangelized the whole town of Samaria. And who can forget the prodigal son that Jesus spoke of in his parable which talks of a young man who requests his inheritance from his father and goes off to a far country and wasted it on partying and riotous living.

But after all his money is gone and his friends have left, he went to work for a man who owned a pig farm. It was there that he found himself eating the same food (husks) that the pigs ate because no man gave to him. In the midst of being in the pig slop, he had an Aha moment and decided to return to his father’s house with a repentant heart (Luke 15:11).

The ultimate Aha moment is when we recognize that without Christ, we are nothing and that there is no way we can make it without the Lord in our lives. The Aha moment helps us realize that Jesus Christ was right as he said “what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul or what will a man give in exchange for his soul.” (Mark 8:36)

Some of us have different levels of Aha in our lives like when we come to know for ourselves that with God nothing shall be impossible, or that we really can do all things through Christ that strengthens us (Philippians 4:13) or even the personal revelation that we are more than conquerors through Christ who loves us (Romans 8:37). Finally, I am reminded of the songwriter who said “Life now is sweet and my joy is complete for I’m saved, saved, saved." Thank God for the Aha moment.