Today

I was reading a character study of the high priest Eleazar in The Life Application Bible when I came across this sentence:

 

Concentrating on our present challenges and responsibilities is the best way to prepare for what God has planned for our future.

 

I have not read anything in a while that I agree with more.  Life seems to run much more smoothly when I focus on day to day rather than next year or the next 10 years, etc.  Not that I don’t have goals, but that I live today looking forward rather than trying to live in the future now.  It takes time for some things to come together and we cannot rush them no matter how much we would like to do so.

 

Bill Cosby has said:

 

The past is a ghost, the future a dream;

All we ever have is now.