Look
When was the last time you took a walk in the woods and just looked around you. Oh, I don’t mean you looked where you were walking, so you wouldn’t trip on a fallen branch or something. I mean you took a few steps, paused, smelled the air and looked at individual needles on a nearby red or white pine tree. I mean where you paused and looked at the chipmunk or red squirrel running through the branches. I mean where you noticed that huge pile of wood chips at the base of a popple or white cedar. You looked up to see where they came from, and you saw huge holes made by a pileated woodpecker.
Taking a walk in the woods and looking while you take a walk in the woods are quite different. The Bible encourages us to “look” forward to the things that yet await His children. Everlasting peace, joy, and contentment are but three.
But this morning I want to share a warning the Bible gives to us about not “looking” back. You know remembering all the small things, all the specific hurts and pains, all the times you were hurt or wronged. Let them go and look ahead today. It is where God wants us to “look.”
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV
A,good word for today and we always need to be reminded.