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Friday, July 11, 2008 - The Here and Now (3) |
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READ IT ALOUD: For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures may have hope (Romans 15:4).
PONDER IT PRAYERFULLY: While we should not dwell in or base our lives on the regrettable aspects of the past, we cannot afford to discard the past altogether. We would not be here today if it were not for our past experiences. In fact, what we have experienced in our pasts will help us get to where we are going tomorrow. The past is the place God brought us from. It is the place to which our mind goes in order for us to be encouraged in the Lord. In order to be comforted in trial, the Israelites always remembered that God brought them out of Egypt and out of the wilderness.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 - The Here and Now (2) |
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READ IT ALOUD: ...forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before (Phil 3:13).
PONDER IT PRAYERFULLY: As we discovered yesterday, sometimes we spend so much time thinking about the past that we do not realize the gift of the present. Many times we look at our lives and wonder why God would choose us after all we have done.
Why should I question the decision God has made? He does not regret it; He does not think He has wasted His resources in pouring them out on my life. He is not worried about the decision He has made, and for this reason I too should be confident in it.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - The Here and Now (1) |
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READ IT ALOUD: But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day (Hebrews 3:13).
PONDER IT PRAYERFULLY: Jesus knew what He was talking about when He told us not to worry about tomorrow. Too many times, soldiers of the Lord find themselves thinking too far back into the past or too far ahead into the future to really recognize, acknowledge and celebrate the here and now. Yet, like the cliche says, "today is a gift, that's why it's called 'the present'".
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