Yesterday ended last night. So today it is more valuable to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. Regret looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up. Life can be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. If past history was all that mattered, librarians would be the only successful people in the world. The past should only be viewed with gratitude for the good things God has done, so look backwards with gratitude and forward with confidence. Your past is the start of your fresh start. Experience is at best yesterday's answer to today's problem. God doesn't review your past to determine your future. Stop taking journeys into the past. Don't make the mistake of letting yesterday use up too much of today. "Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert (Is.43:18-19). - John L Mason, from the book Let Go Of Whatever Makes You Stop. (to find out more about this book, please go to http://www.freshword.com/resources) |
