Living in the Future

I do not know about you, but I have been snagged by the snare of dreams. I am living in the future more so than today. My personal ambitions and the need to be successful can easily cloud every thought. This is not to mention the plan God has for me. I am coming to realize that today is the only day that counts. If we really trust God, do we really need a five year plan? Would we not end up in God’s best place if we surrendered each day to Him?

I have been paralyzed for to long. This “living in the future” or always dreaming about the future has cause me to become stagnate in my “today“. I may never have my future and I will never see my yesterday again. Today is what life is about. If we trust God for today we should not worry about tomorrow. Matthew 6:25 says,

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.”

This may seem easy or even like common sense to some. However, we all are guilty to some degree. Some may say worrying and dreaming are different. That may be the case sometimes, but if you really examine your heart you will see that vast majority of the time worry or anxiety is right there in the midst. When God gave the children of Israel manna from heaven, it was good for that day. When God kept Daniel safe in the loins den, or the 3 Hebrew boys safe from the fiery furnace, that was good for that day. Any other day could have had a completely different outcome.

The point is if we are meditating on our future more so than we are living our today, something is off. How is it we can be praying about our future, but run the kids off today? How can we go to church and have a good time in the Lord, but hate being with our family? How can we say we trust the Lord if we live in the fantasy of your future while ignoring the reality of today?

The answered is simple, we are side tracked by the American dream, personal ambitions, and our 5 and 10 year plans. Really what we are looking for is purpose. We need to know and want to know our purpose… Our purpose is the same, to know God and to do His will today!

Today is the day of Salvation! Not tomorrow. So lets stop dreaming about tomorrow and make the most of our today!

If we take our minds off ourselves and begin to focus on the Kingdom of God today, we could rock this world!!!