Every day is a day of discovery. Sometimes it is rediscovery. Some concepts come slow to me. I was thinking about regret. Regret is putting your focus in the past. Hope is not in the past. Hope lies in our future. When we look ahead to the hope we have in Christ, when we look past our past failures and glories we begin to see what God can and will do in our lives. In Lamentations the author says that God's mercies are new every morning. Every day is a new chance to look for success. Every new day is a chance to put failure and disappointment behind us and to plan for a new success. This doesn't mean that we cannot learn from our past failures and successes, but we live in the present and it is constantly moving towards the future. What is done in the past is done. We cannot go back and change it. If we don't realize that, we may continue wishing that something wouldn't have happened or wishing that it would happen again. Today is all we have. Tomorrow is but a promise of things to come. Choose this day whom you will serve and how you will live. Learn from your past, plan for tomorrow, but live for today. We cannot change yesterday and we cannot be certain of what tomorrow brings, only that God brings it.
Blessings
Alan
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