Are You Living in Today, Tomorrow or Yesterday?

Today is a brand new day. You have never been in this day before. Neither have I. And we will never again be in this 'today'. Oh yes, there have been plenty of 'todays', but never this one.

Yesterday is past. Forever. From now on it can only be visited in our thoughts and in our words. Yesterday. We should let yesterday go. That's right, let it go. We may feel as if it's holding onto us, but the truth is, we're the one doing the holding onto.

Tomorrow has not yet come, and it may not appear.Then again, maybe it will appear for some. But maybe not for you. Or I. Only God knows if it shall. But we do know this: Tomorrow is not today.

Today, this day, is where we belong. In our minds. In our thinking we should be in today, not yesterday, not tomorrow. This day is the day in which we shoud live.

Yesterday is okay to be remembered from time to time. As a matter of fact, our minds will take us there. Without warning, most times. There were good times yesterday. We were happy then. We want to remember those positive times, and there's nothing wrong with that. But we mustn't get caught up in thinking there are not still better times ahead. And bigger things in the mind of God concerning us. Yesterday may have been good, but tomorrow can be great if we'll relinquish the past. God is trying to move us forward. We can't let the past prevent that from happening.

And what about those not so good times in our lives. We've all endured them. We did things that cost us. People wronged us, and we wronged people. We messed up. We messed up a lot. Okay. But reliving these negative things, in our minds, over and over again have not been productive, have they? We have to learn from mistakes, but stop holding onto the failures of yesterday. We're holding ourselves captive when we hold on to past failures. No one else has us in bondage to the past. Nothing else has us there. We have ourselves there. Stuck in yesterday and what was. We have to release it. The pains of yesterday. We must forgive those who have hurt us. We must forgive ourselves for making wrong choices. Repent of our sins, and let God forgive us. Then we can really move in the right direction...forward.

Let's not abide in yesterday. Let's abide in today, for this is the day that matters now. We should do as our brother Paul, who said he was, "forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before," (Philippians 3:13,KJV)

Tomorrow is not promised to anyone. We should plan to be in it, but we are foolish when we try living it out in today. Matthew 6:34(KJV) says we are to, "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." In order words, don't dwell on tomorrow. You have enough in this day to concern yourself with.

This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24,KJV)

When we live life according to the Word we can really live and enjoy life instead of just trying to get through it. For God gives us grace for today.