Throughout scripture, God shows us the importance of looking back on yesterday through Memorial Stones. These are times in which we remember His blessings and miracles in our lives through His sacrifice and the sacrifice of others.
We celebrate Memorial Day in America with this same spirit of honor and reverence. It is a day of reflection as we gather as a nation and remember those who fought and died for the freedom of our country.
Remembering yesterday, in this sense, is a Godly thing because it seeks purely to honor God and others and doesn’t get bogged down in our own guilt and personal past sins.
Unfortunately, many in the church live in their yesterdays perhaps because they feel condemned and guilty from what they’ve done in the past. They refuse to let go of their mistakes and then spend their time dwelling on their personal failures.
God’s admonition to you is to stop dwelling on your yesterdays and dwell with Him in a place of peace today.
God is not in the condemnation business. He is in the redemption business. The past is the past…we need to leave it there. As Psalm 118 says, “this is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
We also need to be careful in our memory of past successes. There's work to do today and talk of yesterday's good work has little to do with the task set before us today.
A box full of trophies is just a box full of trophies, isn't it? Do trophies really add to our sense of self worth?
Remember, "nows" quickly become yesterday and tomorrow is only a possibility.
Yesterday is only made whole by what you do today.
Dwell with the Lord today…and put your past at rest in Him. TODAY is the day the Lord has made.
Love,
Pastor Steve
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