Yesterday

This weekend I started a line of thought and was planning to conclude it over the weekend.  After thinking on it quite a bit more I've decided to expand the idea and spread it out over a few more days.

How often have you gotten bent out of shape about something that happened yesterday?  Yeah, I know.  What people say and do sometimes can crush us.  What we say or do has just as much power to devastate as well, others or ourselves.  Are you still paying for past mistakes?  Does someone you know regularly throw those mistakes in your face?

Yesterdays are incredibly important, but maybe not for the reasons some of us would like to think.  Mistakes we make can serve a purpose by offering opportunities to learn more about ourselves.  If we have been wronged that becomes a teaching tool for us to become wise and wary, not weary, but we must take great care not to cross over into bitterness or wholesale skepticism in regards to others.  The past can be something for us to draw inspiration from because of the good things that happened as well.

 

Triumph is a catalyst for encouragement. 

 

What could be more triumphant than rescue by a loving God that can be neither touched by mortality, influenced by space, nor swallowed by eternity... but I don't want to get ahead of myself.