Where are you?

In this very moment, where are you? Your body may be in a certain spot but is your mind there as well? How often we are in one place but our minds are fractured amongst numerous stresses, worries, or fears. I can recall times when I would be driving and after many miles I would snap out of the thought coma and realize I have no idea how I got to where I was. That happens to us in our lives. We can go hours, days, weeks, months, or maybe even years constantly thinking outside of the current moment we are in and finally snap out of it and realize how much time has been spent without knowing fully how we got to where we are. Where did it all go wrong? Why is it like this? Now questions of regret can pile on top of everything else. So how can one truly live in the moment? By leaning on, trusting in, and fully submitting to God.

The journey through faith can be hard or confusing at times. I’ve been through many different perspectives when trying to lean on God. One perspective was bordering on apathy. I would tell myself that no matter how bad this path got that I just won’t care. If it gets too hard or bad I’ll just check out mentally and not care or just accept “what is”. Why would I think that by leaning on God I would have to endure something so terrible? I believe it’s because I feel sinful and undeserving. These are the times I’m forgetting about grace and that we don’t deserve anything but God blesses us in abundance because he loves us.

Another perspective I would go through would be my sacrificial bartering. I would go back and forth about if I lost this or never got that. I would run scenarios is my mind about how much I could lose before I could no longer bear it. I would drive myself to the brink of madness with the endless bartering to the point where I felt like telling God to take it all at once so I didn’t have to endure the thoughts anymore. A Kind of ripping off the band aid. Again my first mistake was forgetting grace but also I realized that by bartering material I was idolizing many things before God. Anything that I could lose that would make me lose faith is something that was keeping me separated from God.

I start to think of my old life and how much material I had then and all the “fun” I was having but how empty I felt. God has since filled that void that no amount of material could ever fill and He can never be taken away from me or me from Him.

Through all this I’ve learned that none of this matters. Why worry about what may happen or what I might lose or even gain for that matter? We can lose nothing or gain more than we can even imagine. Why add unnecessary stress by trying to predict what we can’t control?

Infinite variables are scattered throughout our futures. Most likely by being absent in anxious thought we manifest our worst realities. If one’s mind is focused on the worst that can happen we will be looking for signs that it’s coming to fruition. When we are driving to a destination what do we do? We look for signs to get us there. So if we are navigating our lives looking for signs that our worst outcome is coming up we will navigate ourselves right into it.

Instead, as God tells us, try not leaning on your own understanding and lean on Him. Cast all your cares on Him and trust Him with them. Also, do not worry about the cares of tomorrow. Ward off every bad thought and be fully aware of where you are right now. Take it in and enjoy it completely. You are here, you are alive. I’m sure you are going through a tough time, most are but don’t waste another moment on thoughts that don’t make it any easier.

Be here in this moment, the present. Faith allows one to unburden their mind. Unburdens desire, fear, envy, anger, and all thoughts that blanket true life. All things are possible through Gods gift and the promise of eternal life can start this present moment. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6 KJV

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; And lean not unto thine own understanding.”

Proverbs 3:5 KJV

“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

Matthew 6:34 KJV

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”

Jeremiah 29:11 KJV