“I cannot know the future and my view of the past is biased—so thanks that, by your Spirit, I can know you right now, Beginning and End.”

It’s easy to get caught up in fantasizing about the future or obsessing about the past. Either way causes you to miss your life right now in the moment. I agree to a point about my past being biased, but my past is also where I can count the ways God has shown up in my life. I can trust for the future and live in the present based on God’s past faithfulness.

I do believe that where God is speaking to me is where I am — not where I want to be or where I wish I could be or where I should have been by this point. God has each and every person in a specific place for a specific purpose in His plan for the world. It does no good to waste your present waiting for the next breakthrough or blessing when you might have an opportunity for obedience right now. You might be missing a word from God right in this moment.

Thank You, God, that You still speak to Your people. Help me to be still and silent long enough to hear Your voice and to discern that it’s You speaking. Help me not only to hear You but to obey what I hear. If there is anything that’s not pleasing to You in me, help me to see it and confess it so that my channel to You will be wide open. Help Your children to love You well by how they love others and strive to be holy as You are holy. Amen.