I read an article by Charles Stanley about waiting confidently on the Lord. At the end, there were three questions: 1. Where is my focus? 2. Where is my strength? 3. Where is my hope? These are questions I should ask myself every day. I’m always losing my focus, later on remembering that I don’t have to go through things alone anymore—the Lord has been with me the whole time. I read a great devotional today check this out;
The month of January is named after Janus, the roman god of beginnings. He was symbolized as a man with two faces, one looking back and the other looking ahead. Some people have trouble looking ahead with hope because they keep looking back and moping over the mistakes of the past. Their outlook on the future is dimmed, and their enthusiasm is dampened. But there is no use “crying over spilled milk.” History is likely to repeat itself if they keep brooding over failures of the whole year, or continually complaining about the injustices they suffered over the last twelve months. Nothing is gained by continually grieving over the past. On this day early in the new year, begin by confessing your sins to the Lord and accepting the gracious forgiveness He offers (1 John 1:9-10). Make right what needs correcting, and then, “forgetting those things which are behind,” press onward with confidence and trust in your heaven Father (Phil. 3:13-14). That was Paul’s secret, and it worked. Let’s stop looking back and brooding over past failures. Rather, with a forward look, let’s move ahead with hope and joy.
This s a great encouragement to me. Because the Lord has done great things in my life, I can look ahead and continue to expect great thing to happen. Let’s ask our heavenly Father to help us not to live in “yesterday’s shadow,” but to “walk in the light of today and the hope of tomorrow.”
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