It’s the battle plan of the enemy of the soul — to keep us blind to this current moment, the one we can’t control, to keep us blind to Him, the One who controls everything.
Ann Voskamp
It’s so easy to live our lives in the past, dwelling on regrets and failures, or to live in fear of what the future holds, trying to plan and control it. What can be hard, or at least for me it is, is to live in the now, this present moment. To truly be here, right now, in this moment, fully aware and apart of it.
This moment is fleeting and only lasts but a minute. Life changes and moves at lightening speeds. There is the tyranny of the urgent, things calling…yelling, for our time and attention. We have full plates that wobble and tip and threaten to spill. What gets pushed off? Time playing with our children? Time just sitting, holding hands with our spouses? Time with our Lord?
I battle this daily and have to be honest and say I have not won the battle…yet. I will persevere and press on. I will ask myself what is more important, what truly matters in the moment. By doing only those things that truly matter I will then not have all the regrets lingering in the past. To live each moment as if it were the last. To practice His presence moment by moment. To live in this moment, here and fully apart of it, soaking in each minute…I can choose to not let this moment rush by. If I watch the moments then the hours and days will watch themselves!
You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
Psalm 139:16
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