Worry

Luke 9:62 (ESV)

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

I struggle a lot with worry but we are told in the Bible “not worry for tomorrow because tomorrow holds its own worries. But it occurred to me recently, that just about as often as we worry for tomorrow, we worry for yesterday! How many times do we find ourselves saying, "I wish things could be the way they were, I wish I was younger, I wish I could fit into those jeans again, I wish……you fill in the blank"?

The Lord doesn’t want us looking back at what once was. Our enemy does -- he wants us to feel discouraged and helpless over what we face today and drown in self-pity about how it was in the past. But God wants us to look ahead to new endeavors! He wants us to say "forget the old – there are great things for the future – I’m gonna look ahead!"

Let’s forget the past – it’s long gone already. Let’s move ahead and press toward the new things that the Lord wants to do in our lives.

Dear Lord, help us not worry about the past but instead to look forward to what You have for each of us. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.