No changing the past but future is wide open

My vacation has been good for me in more ways than one. Importantly I have made excellent progress in writing my book and according to my consultant “the Maui air must be good for me” because I just nailed a key chapter which I would say was undoubtedly the most difficult to write in the entire book.

Aside from that nice accomplishment though, I have had hour after hour of nothing to do but lounge around the pool and think. My schedule is usually crammed full of intense projects and I am generally always surrounded by throngs of people, and “deep-thinking” in solitude is a luxury in which I rarely engage. It has been good for my soul. I have searched it and come up with an important lesson in life.

I have been thinking about what is really important in life not just to me, but to God. Instead of using my pitiful human logic to ascertain what I think is important, I went back to the Bible and listened to what *Jesus* thinks is important.

I found my answer when Jesus was asked by the Pharisees, (who knew the Bible very well) that out of the 613 commands in the Bible which was the most important. Jesus answered them in Matthew 22:37-40, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and most important command. And the second command is like it. You shall love your neighbor as you love yourself. This is what the Law and the Prophets really mean.”

Hmmm. Here is how *love* is defined in the Bible: I Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Patient? Kind? Not envious? Not a braggart? Not proud? Not rude? Not self seeking? Not easily angered? Keeps no records of wrongs? No enjoyment of evil? Rejoices in truth? ALWAYS: protects, trusts, hopes, and perseveres?

Almighty God creator of all tells us in no uncertain terms that we must love God and each other in this fashion as His most important command.

Please excuse me, I have to go now. I have a lot of work to do I cannot change the past, but I can affect the future. Time’s a’wastin’!

Phil. 3:12
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.
Brothers 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.




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