Learning how to live in the present is a major key to finding happiness.? Living in the past will be filled with regret.? Living in the future usually means living in fear.? Only in the present will we be content
Key #5 to Happiness ? Living in the present
?Yesterday is history.? Tomorrow is a mystery.? And today?? Today is a gift.? That's why we call it the present.?? ~Babatunde Olatunji
At first glance, you might ask ? what does living in the present have to do with happiness? ?What?s so great about the present?? What does it even mean to live in the present? ??It means that we are focused on what we are experiencing, thinking andor feeling right now?and not caught up in the fantasies about the future or burdened down with memories of the past.?
?Be here now? was a popular phrase in the hippy days which was captured well in many books and songs.? Like all things, however, embracing this concept can lead a person either positively or negatively?into deep irresponsibility and narcissism, or into the discipline of total reliance upon God for every need on a moment to moment basis.?
Living in the ?now? with Jesus is the epitome of joy Cheap Casey Cizikas Hat , peace, wisdom, power and destiny.
But how do you get there?? Well, first, let?s explore not living in the present.
Living in the past = Regret
??When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.? ??Alexander Graham Bell
I must admit that I too relive the past sometimes.? ?Like most of us Cheap Adam Pelech Hat , when I find myself in the past, I am usually reliving a mistake or a negative situation, which then makes me feel badly about myself.? Oh, I have personal ones too, but when I am stuck in the past it usually has to do with work.? Have you ever had an important meeting and you blew it?? I have.? For days I can beat myself up over it replaying the scene over and over in my mind, wishing I could have a ?do over.? ??Sometimes even years later Cheap Calvin De Haan Hat , I can find myself feeling sick about a particular meeting that went south.
I can only imagine the torment people experience who have made a mistake that caused serious injury or even someone?s life.? One such situation happened recently with one of my relatives.?
Frankly, I don?t know how one gets over something like that, except by God?s grace. ?
?God promises to give the Holy Spirit liberally to everyone who asks for Him.? ?
?If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more
will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!? Luke 11:13
He also said Cheap Jaroslav Halak Hat , ?If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.? John. 14:14
What does ?anything? include?? Hmmnn?? I guess it means ANYTHING.? (which includes healing your memories and self incriminations)? But there?s more ?
?If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness?.? 1 John 1:9 (NKJV)
?Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead?,?? Phil 3:13 (NKJV)
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus Cheap Brock Nelson Hat , who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.? Romans 8:1 (NKJV)
On the other hand, if we are constantly recalling positive experiences of the past, it usually means that our happiness is caught up deeds or works we did earlier?with pride hovering around us ready to establish (or grow) a deeper root.? Even reliving our own old glory days too often can hold us back from hearing the new thing God has for us now.?
Here is what the Bible says about living in the past:
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold Cheap Anders Lee Hat , all things have become new.? 2 Cor 5:17 (NKJV)
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.? Romans 6:4 (NKJV)
Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ? Phil 3:8 (NKJV)
Living in the future = Anxiety and Fear.
We all like to think about the possibility about a wonderful future where our dreams come true and that is not a bad thing.? However Cheap Cal Clutterbuck Hat , truth be told, when most of us think about the future, it?s usually about negative things?things we fear.? Fear of losing a job, not being able to pay the bills, not being able to care for our families and more.? We all face these fears, including myself.? The key is not to dwell on our fears but to give them over to God?that is what he wants us to do with them.? Also Cheap Mathew Barzal Hat , check out our next keys to happiness next week where we?ll talk about how to overcome fear.
Here is what the Bible has to say about fixating on the future, worry and fear:
"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on.? Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? ?Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? ?So why do you
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