When praying and reading the Bible today I was completely challenged. Please excuse the slight diversion from Acts - but I thought this was cool...!
See for the past ages, and quite often throughout my life I've felt down or not good enough and wanted to change stuff, alter things, be better, do this, start over, and so on. I tend to set a deadline and think, right on this date I'll do this, or be like this, or stop doing this.
At the moment I'm particularly thinking over this as the year draws to a close and 2013 is upon us. Infact it was as I was writing my Christmas cards that this first struck me. I was writing in peoples' cards 'May 2013 be your best year yet' or 'have a great 2013, hope it's your best year to date', and so on. But why am I wishing time away? Why am I waiting for the strike of midnight on 31st December 2012 to change me and alter things? Am I expecting some sort of miracle to automatically happen and fix everything?
No, see God's grace is big enough to start over now. His grace is so amazing, that we don't have to wait for a date or a deadline to sort things out and fix things. We can do it now. I don't want to wish my precious days on earth away by constantly living for the next date, the next holiday, the next deadline, the next opportunity to get it right! I want to live for now, in the here and now, in the present day with God and His Grace continuously making a difference to my life and helping me to live each day to the full. There is so much potential for today, let's not waste it but let's see it come to fruition now!
To finish, Derek Mills, author of The Ten Second Philosphy which I'm reading at the moment puts it like this... 'Over 2,000 years ago Christ taught us 'give us this day', not this decade, not this month, not this quarter, and not this fiscal year. Give us this day'. I think this is an awesome message. Let's live while it is today.
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