We need to avoid becoming obsessed with the future and the things that God has concealed from us and instead strive to become consumed with what He has revealed. Otherwise, we may miss the significance of our current season by failing to invest our life's energies wisely. We must be careful about throwing away our vocation, our ministry, our relationships or anything that may seem fruitless and frustrating at this time.
Sadly, most people live in a "Wish I" world in which they would rather be someone else or live somewhere else. Yet we can take advantage of this season and maximise our returns by doing what we know to do.
- Marlinda Ireland, What is God Waiting For?
"When Esther's words were reported to Mordecai, he sent back this answer: "Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"" - Esther 4:12-14 (NIV)
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's "own", or "real" life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one's "real life" is a phantom of one's own imagination. This at least is what I see at moments of insight; but it's hard to remember it all the time.
- C. S. Lewis, The Quotable Lewis
Before we can live in the future, we must live in the present. Before we can live for tomorrow, we must live for today. We cannot change what COULD be or what WILL be, but we can change what WOULD be.
"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." - Matthew 6:33-34 (NIV)
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