People change. Seasons change. Times change. God is.
As I get older, I appreciate time in quite a different way. How much of it do I have left? And more importantly, what will I do with it?
God sees time quite differently. By giving Himself the name LORD, which has no reference to time, He is telling us that He always is. I covered that last week.
However, this truth leads to another truth: God not only doesn’t, but can’t change (James 1:17). He is perfect. And since He is always in the now, He is always perfect. There is no past programming that needs to be replaced with new thoughts that lead to new choices. He is now perfect.
Let that sink in. When we choose to follow Him in the now, we won’t have to look back over our lives and wish we had done or said something differently. If only we knew then what we know now, we’d make different choices. Maybe. But we didn’t.
Stay in the present. Get forgiveness for last moment’s choice. Then use the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16) for the next choice. He is objective truth, consistent truthful thinking that leads to the perfect choice, Christlike character, which remains beyond time. Thus, no regrets about the past.
This goal is to hit a hole in one every time. But if you come up short, forget the last shot/choice! It’s in the past. It’s last moment.
Stay in the present with the non-changing present One. It’s a new choice, now. It’s a new outcome, now.