Looking overly long in the rearview mirror, we only gain an oncoming disaster in our front windshield! Our best days as Christians are always ahead. Jesus has promised to return and take us home to be with God! What better future could there be? So let’s not get distracted by a nostalgic glorification of the past and a grumpy cynicism about our future. We can thank God for his past blessings, but let’s not waste the present moment with pessimism. Let’s find joy each day, thank God for his blessings in the present, and commit to redeeming our time, trusting that the same God who raised Jesus from the dead also holds our future in his hands. “Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions” Ecclesiastes 7:10.
October 18
He who heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray. —Proverbs 10:17. God has given each of us a circle of influence, a place