Philippians 4:12-14)
Pressing on. Some days when you wake up, you just don't feel like fighting
any longer. You are tired of the battles, tired of the struggles, with no
desire to keep fighting. Paul in his letter to the church at Philipi, gives
us some great daily advice. He says, "Forgetting what is behind, and
straining toward what is ahead." How often are we weary and tired because
we
are still looking back, allowing those problems and situations to hold us
down today. Listen, what is past is past. The enemy wants to hold you back
by keeping you focused on the past. I am telling you today to let it go and
live for today. Focus on today and tomorrow, not yesterday.
So many I deal with every day are in a pit of quicksand called yesterday's
problems. First of all, whatever those problems are, it is time to turn
them
over to God and start living for today. Most of what is going on isn't
going
to be fixed quickly, isn't going to have an overnight answer, and is going
to
take a power much greater than yourself to fix. After all, if you could fix
it, you would have already. Turn it over to God. Does that make it go away
magically? No. But it does put it in the hands of our Lord who can start
working it through and getting you beyond those circumstances.
In the meantime, you have today in front of you. Tomorrow is on the horizon.
Get out of the quicksand of yesterday and start living for Him today. You
will be surprised how much quicker and easier your past problems work out
when you are concentrating on serving the Lord today. I understand that
there are many complicated and difficult situations many of you are facing
today. I am not trying to minimize those in any way. I am encouraging you
to quit focusing so much on the problems of yesterday and start making the
most of your opportunities today, looking towards the challenges of
tomorrow.
Looking back can paralyze you, looking forward can energize you.
