in the now

I am finding it extremely hard to believe that sixty plus days have transpired since my last entry. On one hand I try to think back to all the different things that have gone on in my life over the past two months. On the other, I just want to be here with you IN THE NOW.

The now is where things are currently taking place. Where current prayers become a current reality and where I have found myself over the past couple of months. There is less evaluation and expectation in the now and less things to get hung up on. I know that there is a time for all of those things and I believe that we can learn many things from taking a moment of evaluation. I think though that often times that moment of evaluation can discourage and hand cuff us from a forward movement.

James wrote these words...(ch.4:13-17)

Now, listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.

These words have been convicting me lately. I want to live in the now - doing what it is that God is calling me to do. I don’t want to leave things undone because I am looking back at the past.

God, grant us strength and favor and an in the now spirit to accomplish the things that you have set out for us!