If you wish to find
peace today, it will all start with your attitude as you approach it. Bring
nothing into today from yesterday, lest you start your day with a burden,
before it has even begun. It is the baggage of yesterday that often wearies us before
we have even taken the first step, on today’s journey. Carrying the knowledge of
the past is different than carrying its burden. Let those things that ailed you
yesterday, stand as a pile of rumble before you today, being thankful, that you
no longer need to carry them or the burden they represent any further on your journey.
It is often not, what we run into, but rather what we choose to carry that
drains us of our strength. Approaching today’s challenges while carrying yesterday’s
burdens will certainly leave you unable and incapable of facing them with the
muster necessary to meet the challenge. No matter how strong you are, the
weight of the past will certainly overwhelm you at some point, but more
important, it will keep you from having the freedom to begin each day fresh and
renewed. Understand, those who dread tomorrow, do so because they have chosen to
live in the burden of yesterday! Remember, we are to cast all our cares upon
him; for He careth for us. Start each day with empty hands, open hearts, and
eyes filled with the wonder of what each new day holds!
Your Pastor.
