INSTEAD OF GAZING INTO THE Unknown Future live each moment in joyful awareness of My Presence. I hold your future safely in My hands. It will unfurl before you as you go step by step through each day.
Dear Jesus, We love this imagery. It reminds us of seeing red carpet rolled out in front of an honored person. We are blessed by knowing that You hold our future safely in Your hands: releasing it to us moment by moment. Help us enjoy the wonder of Your Presence - accessible to us only in the present.
Beloved, I want to teach you how to spend more of your time in the present. The future, as most people conceptualize it, does not really exist. I hold it far beyond the reach of any person. When you or others gaze into the future, making predictions, you are simply exercising your imagination. I alone have access to what is "not yet," because My existence isn't limited by time. As you go step by step through each day, I unroll the future before you. While you walk forward on the red carpet of time, you never set foot on anything but the present moment. Recognizing the futility of future gazing can help set you free to live more fully in the present. The freer you become, the more you an enjoy the reality of My Presence.
Becoming free is a demanding process, because your mind is accustomed to wandering into the future at will. When you find yourself engaged in such thoughts, recognize that you are roaming in a fantasy land. As you awaken yourself with this truth, its as if the ground drops out from under whatever you were fantasizing. This helps you return to the present: the here and now. I eagerly await you, ready to enfold you in My unfailing Love.
- Jesus
(Dear Jesus / Sarah Young)
Scripture Insight: Ecclesiastes 8:7; Revelation 1:8 and Psalm 32:10
"Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come?"
ReplyDelete(Ecclesiastes 8:7 / New International Version)
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty"
(Revelation 1:8 / New International Version)
"The LORD's unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him"
(Psalm 32:10 / New International Version)