Be Present

Forget about what's happened; don't keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I'm about to do something brand-new. It's bursting out! Don't you see it? There it is! I'm making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.
(Is 43:19 MSG)

Have you ever had someone start talking to you, and your mind was elsewhere and you neither heard them nor answered them. You will usually end up receiving a rather loud “Helloooooooooo, anybody there?” In that moment we were not living in the present.

When we are obsessed with the past, we are always looking back over our shoulders in time and are frozen in place, never able to move on. Disappointment with our present life and circumstances will result in us discrediting the present and always looking to the future when it is going to happen, what ever it may be, that will result in our being able to enter into our destiny, and again we are unable to move on. Either way we are neither living in the present nor in His presence.

We neither live in the past nor the future. We live in the here and now. If we are not alert and present, we will miss what God is saying and doing right now. Destiny is a journey to be lived out, not a destination to be arrived at. Value the journey, value the sights, value the places, value the people, and value His presence. When we are present, we give value to the things that are important, and we are engaged in the process of living out our destiny.