As I continue down this seemingly desolate, dark and curvy road — full of unknowns, weak headlights and dimly lit streets — what often grabs my attention is that which is behind me. It appears ablaze, and like a moth drawn to the flame, it can distract me from what lies ahead. It shifts my focus from what God is doing in my present, to what I did in my past — to what feels comfortable, to what causes me to feel in control. It blurs my future in such a way that I stop relying on Him, instead reverting to evermore self-reliant and ultimately fearful thinking.
Where’s my focus? Is it insecurely fixated on the “comforts” of my past or firmly confident in His leading and in His future?
I’m choosing to be confidently comfortable in the humanly unseen of His secured future.
This is what GOD says… “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.” Isaiah 43:16-19 MSG