How did you do yesterday?
Eating? Exercise? Bible reading? Prayer? Serving Others?
Not as well as you would like? Don’t let that stop you today.
Isn’t it something how we allow yesterday to stop us from doing something today? We may feel behind or unsuccessful, so we just do it again.
If you feel paralyzed by yesterday’s regrets or crushed by the weight of tomorrow’s responsibilities, know this: the present is your only reality.
Yesterday is a memory with consequences.
Tomorrow is your imagination with possibilities.
Yesterday can’t be changed.
Tomorrow can’t be touched.
That makes this moment the only one you can do something about. That doesn’t seem like much.
However, striving today to be like you wish you were yesterday and how you want to be tomorrow will already make you better now. Moments spent this way become precious memories and make a promising future.
We can only live a day at a time.
Learn from the past, don’t live in it.
Live in the present, don’t lose it.
Prepare for the future, don’t worry about it.
”See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil" (Eph 5:15-16, Unless otherwise stated: Scripture is taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Used by permission. All rights reserved).
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (Phil 3:12-14).
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble" (Matt 6:25-34).
What will you do with this moment?
Van
