The Danger of Living in Your Yesterdays
This devotion is from Anita at inspire woman.
Boy did this one touch me!! Hope it encourages you as well.
Love you all,
Letty
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The Danger of Living in Your Yesterdays
As we enter the New Year, do you find yourself in a new place in your life? Perhaps a key relationship in your life has changed. Perhaps positions in your workplace are being reorganized. Perhaps you are in a new location and away from those who were once part of your network. Do you find yourself living in your yesterdays and wishing life was like the good old days? Let's discover together how Jesus responded to the changes in His life.
Phil 2:6-8 reads: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death- even death on a cross! NIV.
From these verses, we learn that Jesus lived in royal surroundings. If anyone had the right to miss the perfection of the environment He came from, it would be Jesus. Yet, while on earth, Jesus never wished He were somewhere else. He did not live in His yesterdays. He did not resent His new place in life. Instead He stepped into the changes in His life as His divine appointment. Oh Faithful One, what about you? How are you responding to the changes in your life? If you live in how things used to be, you run the danger of missing what God wants to accomplish in your todays.
John 6:38-39 reads: For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. (NIV). Observe that while Jesus was on earth, He was connected to His Father's will and to God's overall mission for planet earth. Although Jesus did not look back to the past, His past was part of His identity. His Father's will was the common thread that connected His yesterdays to His today. What God allowed Jesus to experience in His yesterdays was part of His identity and shaped Him into the perfect vessel for His current assignment. Oh Faithful one, instead of burying your past and jettisoning your history, could it be that your history is what God will transform and build from? Could it be that your heartaches and suffering and experiences have molded you for a very unique assignment God wants to entrust to you? Oh to think that you are the perfect vessel for a moment such as this! When we are in tune with our uniqueness and with God's current movement in our community, it becomes our choice to step into our moment of divine destiny.
Realize that the strategy of the devil is to create constant turmoil in our lives by the changes we initiate out of our random search for a solution or by changes imposed on us as others search for their answers to life. Observe how Jesus anchored His life in His uniqueness and in God's purpose on earth. The most amazing thing I have found in my own life is how I found my answers when I no longer focused on finding answers for my own life. Instead, I started focusing on what God was doing in my community and recognized that my skills and resources were given to me in order that I can offer them back to God for His use. Oh Faithful One, as we enter the New Year, is it time for you to find your compass in God's purpose and to align your life and your family's priorities around what God is doing in the world? How will your life reflect God's goodness and mercy to those around you?
I pray this devotion encouraged you in a special way. When I pray for you, I hear a victory song. I believe in you because I believe in the power of God's Word revealed in you as you put His Word into action.
Love, Anita
Letty
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The Danger of Living in Your Yesterdays
As we enter the New Year, do you find yourself in a new place in your life? Perhaps a key relationship in your life has changed. Perhaps positions in your workplace are being reorganized. Perhaps you are in a new location and away from those who were once part of your network. Do you find yourself living in your yesterdays and wishing life was like the good old days? Let's discover together how Jesus responded to the changes in His life.
Phil 2:6-8 reads: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death- even death on a cross! NIV.
From these verses, we learn that Jesus lived in royal surroundings. If anyone had the right to miss the perfection of the environment He came from, it would be Jesus. Yet, while on earth, Jesus never wished He were somewhere else. He did not live in His yesterdays. He did not resent His new place in life. Instead He stepped into the changes in His life as His divine appointment. Oh Faithful One, what about you? How are you responding to the changes in your life? If you live in how things used to be, you run the danger of missing what God wants to accomplish in your todays.
John 6:38-39 reads: For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. (NIV). Observe that while Jesus was on earth, He was connected to His Father's will and to God's overall mission for planet earth. Although Jesus did not look back to the past, His past was part of His identity. His Father's will was the common thread that connected His yesterdays to His today. What God allowed Jesus to experience in His yesterdays was part of His identity and shaped Him into the perfect vessel for His current assignment. Oh Faithful one, instead of burying your past and jettisoning your history, could it be that your history is what God will transform and build from? Could it be that your heartaches and suffering and experiences have molded you for a very unique assignment God wants to entrust to you? Oh to think that you are the perfect vessel for a moment such as this! When we are in tune with our uniqueness and with God's current movement in our community, it becomes our choice to step into our moment of divine destiny.
Realize that the strategy of the devil is to create constant turmoil in our lives by the changes we initiate out of our random search for a solution or by changes imposed on us as others search for their answers to life. Observe how Jesus anchored His life in His uniqueness and in God's purpose on earth. The most amazing thing I have found in my own life is how I found my answers when I no longer focused on finding answers for my own life. Instead, I started focusing on what God was doing in my community and recognized that my skills and resources were given to me in order that I can offer them back to God for His use. Oh Faithful One, as we enter the New Year, is it time for you to find your compass in God's purpose and to align your life and your family's priorities around what God is doing in the world? How will your life reflect God's goodness and mercy to those around you?
I pray this devotion encouraged you in a special way. When I pray for you, I hear a victory song. I believe in you because I believe in the power of God's Word revealed in you as you put His Word into action.
Love, Anita 
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