Lockdown Day 285 - 5 January 2021
To me this could not be farther from the truth. Although it may be true that to keep obsessing about the future or dwelling on the past can cause you to lose touch with reality, this present has never happened before and therefore cannot be lived independently from the past or the future.
We are told the past and the future are both kind of irrelevant in light of the bizarre events playing out on the world stage. However I do question inhaling what's now and exhaling everything else, because we can learn from the past to discern the future. The past can provide valuable truths we can use to mirror the present's validity.
And in this pandemic and Lockdown I don't want to exhale the past, because the past keeps pushing me to find the truth in this all. Also, I don't want to exhale the future, because then it would mean there wasn't one. Not when God's Word promises a future for us.
So tonight I heed God's Word in Jeremiah 29:11-14 from The Message translation:
"I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. When you call on Me, when you come and pray to Me, I’ll listen. When you come looking for Me, you’ll find Me. Yes, when you get serious about finding Me and want it more than anything else, I’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed. I’ll turn things around for you. I’ll bring you back from all the countries into which I drove you, bring you home to the place from which I sent you off into exile. You can count on it."
God said it Himself : He's got this!
Past present and future!
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