What is important to God?

Many people spend time thinking about and living in the past. They think of all the good times and wish they could be back. Others live in regrets and concern themselves with things that they have done or had happened to them in the past. Some Christians allow these things to hold them back.

Others put everything off into the future. They live their lives in the future, planning what they are going to do. There are many sinners that say they will get saved later or in the near future. There are many Christians that say they will live a more holy life and put anyway those sins that so easily beset them in the near future or when something happens in the future.

I have news for you (and myself), life is not lived in the future, things you plan for the future mean nothing to God, as you have not yet done them. The things in the past are gone and over, there is nothing you can do to change them! If you are a Christian and it is a sin in your past you are holding on to, you are not trusting God, He forgave your sins and has chose not to remember them anymore, so there is no reason why you should!

Now to the heart of the matter, we live life in the present! You can only change your past as it is happening. Everyone minute of every day, you are creating your past. It is up to you what your past will be. To God, the only thing that matters is what you are doing right now, not in the future, not those things that you have confessed and been forgiven for in your past, but what you are currently doing, what the state of your heart and decisions you make right now.

You want to have a fuller relationship with God, what will you do today to further this? Not tomorrow, but today!

Tell those that you love, today the you love them.  Appreciate the blessings in your life you have today, not worrying about what will be tomorrow.

Live in today so that you have a future and that your past will be full!