The past, the present and the future

I am here today to tell you that God focuses on the present and the future. Not the past!

I'm gonna use the age old sex before marriage thing as an example here. Say you sleep with somone and you're not married to them.

Number 1.
In God's eyes (not something i'm making up), it's a sin.

Number 2.
To mend the break you've created between you and the Father, and even if it's something you've done which you KNEW wasn't right, you need to confess it to God.

Number 3.
Once you've restored your relationship with God, you can continue on the right path with your friend Jesus.

See the thing I've been noticing with NC's (non-Christians) is that I think they see God as focusing on the Past. God is NOT a god of the past, he is a God of the present and the future.

When I sin, God looks at me and shakes his head in disappointment BUT he doesn't strike me down with a bolt of lightning, because he understands that i'm a sinner and because it's not what he does to make his point anymore. All he asks of me is that i get the forgiveness i need and try with his help not to fall into the trap again. See, he's all about making things right. He's more interested in your relationship with him more than anything in the whole world and if there's a seperation between you and him, he wants us to get it right. I don't think that focuses on the past.

Sure, he hates sin, but he doesn't dwell on it, he puts it behind him but only when we ask him to. It's us who stay in the past far too long. God waits for us to do that so that he can get on with the journey we're on with him. It's up to us to keep going and to keep looking ahead instead of constantly looking behind us. For too long we look at the mess our lives seem to be in instead of handing it over to God.....well i say STOP LIVING IN THE PAST, it's over, it's done, fix it and get on with it!!!!! There's so much to be done rather than mull over our sin.....FIX IT....and keep going.....

Taking a look back at the first example i gave of sleeping with someone before you're married, if it's a sin that keeps bringing you down and a trap you keep falling into (and why not when today's slogan seems to be, "if it feels good, do it?!"), you've gotta hand it over completely to God and keep asking him for strength to conquer temptation. You're not going to conquer anything without his help and without constantly communicating with him, after all, they say the best relationships are the ones with the best communication skills.

I'm gonna end it here and i'm just gonna say that keep looking ahead instead of behind, the good things are in front of you the bad things are behind you and that's the way it should be.

If you're living in the past, if you're living in the dark, doing the same thing's you've always done, it's time you started living in the future, in the light and in a way that would make God really proud to have you in his family!

It's never too late to change who you're living for and how you're living, remember, God's waiting for you to take the next move, he's being patient, he's fully waiting!!!! So......i dare you to move!!!!! Make the change today!!!!!