Sunday, December 28, 2015

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”  ~ Shannon L. Alder

ZECHARIAH 7-9

‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? 6And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?

8And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah: 9“This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. 10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’

REVELATION 19

“Praise our God,

all you his servants,

you who fear him,

both great and small!”



JOURNAL

Being present in the current moment is one of the most difficult things for me to do. Largely it is because I have become conditioned to consuming my mind with the past and the future. It is a habitual response to fear and uncertainty. One that serves to help me but one that has definitely gone awry and does not serve me as needed.

To focus my mind on the present and on the righteousness and goodness of God and his creation is all my mind needs in order to live in joy and to accomplish good in every hour of every day. If I fear God and surrender to his truth then man can hold no fear over me. Unknown circumstances or unknown responses from men can never move me to irrational or hasty actions if my heart and mind are sold out to God and the present moment.