February 24, 2021 – Click here to listen
I’ve spent far too much time dwelling on the past, particularly my unhappy childhood. I have some friends that spend far too much time worrying about the future. Well what about today?
Jesus reassured us in Matthew saying “ . . . Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Yesterday is gone and there is no guarantee of a tomorrow. So what good are they? In the words of Albert Einstein, “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Today should be our focus. So what are your plans for today?
Sometimes when I was speaking to inmates in prison ministry I would ask if they knew for certain they would die that very night how would they prepare for it? I would ask, “How would you spend your day?”
I cannot imagine someone spending their day reliving all of the mistakes they made. Nor would I suppose much time would be expended worrying about tomorrow. I would assume they would spend their time making the most of the today they have left.
Whatever you do today do it with gusto and keep in mind that life is like the morning mist, here for a moment and then gone. Jesus told us to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. I’m not the brightest bulb in the chandelier but it appears to me that our today should begin and end with our loving Savior on our minds.
Mother Teresa once said, “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
2 Corinthians 4:16
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.