SEEK TO BE FREE IN THE NAME OF JESUS: “You can’t judge your future based on where you are today, right now, at this very moment.” Today I want to stress the absolute importance of focusing on a goal rather than where we were or where we are now. This is vital to our success in life as God has willed it and how do we get there from here? Before I answer that question it is important to understand that “there” and “here” are different places for each one of us. Each one of us has a God willed and ordained plan for our lives. However the foundational spiritual mechanics of getting “there” from “here” are alike for all of us. The key to getting “there” from “here”; the key to rising above and move beyond our present circumstances is to focus our eyes, passion, trust and reliance on God rather than staying fixed on and bogged down by our situation(s). God has given us very active and keen imaginations. Our imaginations, that which we picture in our hearts and minds becomes our reality. Much of the time we spend picturing, considering and focusing mental images on our circumstances and replay them over and over and over like a movie in our mind’s eye. What is equally as damaging is we often dwell on the past by picturing events and circumstances from our past over and over again as if we could rewrite the script and have a different outcome. Often times this process is driven by the guilt of what we now would consider to have been poor choices and ultimately we come to the conclusion that we have wasted many parts and opportunities in our lives. Whether we are stuck in the present or stuck in the past, replaying the related images over and over in our minds will keep us from moving forward to what God has for us in the place that He wants us to be. What did Paul say today? He said with all of his knowledge and experience in life, he only knew ONE THING! We MUST forget what lies behind and strain forward to what lies ahead. We must press on press on toward the goal to win the supreme and heavenly prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. (Philippians 3:11-14) God has totally forgiven us for our past and has erased the blot against us. So forget it. “But you don’t know what I did.” It doesn’t matter, God has erased your past from His memory and if you are going to be free of it and move to where God has called you, you must let go of it too! Guess what? You can play the whole thing over and over in your mind and you can never change the outcome. JESUS DID THAT FOR YOU AND ME!
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:00:11 +0000