I heard a statement recently that has really stuck with me. Dr
Bill Winston said, “The most important thing in your life is what you believe
about your future”.
If you really think about it, that is a very true statement.
If you have no hope for your future, then you really won’t expect much from it.
Many times, we are so busy thinking about what has happened to us in the past
that we don’t look at the future.
We all have a past and it’s our story. Our story is what has molded our beliefs and
behaviors today. Some of our stories hold onto much pain from things that have happened
to us. I haven’t met anyone yet that didn’t have something painful in their past.
Why is it then that some people can lead a happy and successful
life when they have pain in their story?
Success or failure depend on what we do with our past. If we
decide to dwell on it and stay there in our thought life, we will fail to build
the future that we want to have. Many times, we go through the motions of
living life, but our minds will be stuck in the past. I know this girl spent
too many years allowing what people have said to me or what they have done take
up room in my head.
Where is your focus? Is it on the past? Current problems? Someone
else?
How about a change of focus? A focus on the future.
Jeremiah
29:11
For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord,
plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you hope and a future.
Looking up at the sky this morning, I saw the clouds rolling
by at a pretty good speed. This initiated the thought about how short life
really is and sometimes it feels like it just glides by.
I don’t want to waste my time thinking on things that I can do nothing about. Let those things stay in the past where they belong. I will
focus on the good future that God has in store for me. It’s a conscious decision
that we make, and those old thoughts will try to creep back in. God has a great
plan for you and the only way to get there is to believe what God said and make
the future your focus.
You may have some destruction in your past but leave it
behind and start over because you have a great future ahead, all you have to do
is believe it.
