We cannot concentrate on tomorrow if we are continuously worrying about yesterday! We often put our lives on hold or are afraid to take that "step out on faith" because of things that have happened in our past. This only flaws any hopes for the future. I am guilty of this and have often wondered what I could do to make a change in my life. How do I get beyond this? How can I take that step out on faith? I have to provide certain things for my family. Well, there ARE ways to provide for my family if I take a step out on faith....look toward the future, rather than always thinking/living in the past! Then, today I received this devotion and it really made me think. Read, enjoy and lets start living for the future....I'm looking ahead, what about you?~Until Later


“Tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” Joshua 3:5

Our yesterdays have made us what we are today, but our tomorrows can make us what God always intended us to become. Joshua was talking to a nation whose yesterdays were a long list of repeated failures and rebellion against God. They had been convicted, judged, punished and reinstated frequently by the God they’d flagrantly sinned against. Surely, they ought to have been cut off from Him, stripped of any future blessing. But “Joshua said to the people, ‘consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.’”
We must consecrate ourselves, realign ourselves with God’s plans and watch Him begin to work in our lives. Just when the enemy convinces us that with our past God couldn’t possibly have a future for us, He calls us to prepare ourselves so He can bless us. God is fully aware of our yesterdays, but He’s much more focused on our tomorrows. Why do we discard our tomorrows when we so desperately need them?

When Jesus cried, “It is finished!” (Jn 19:30), His disciples misunderstood and concluded it was all over. So they slipped away to contemplate the tomorrow they thought would never be. But with God, every ending is a new beginning, and three mornings later the angel announced the resurrection and the new tomorrow that would guarantee the future for all believers. “It (your yesterday) is finished!” Don’t give up your tomorrows by building monuments to your past failures. Acknowledge, confess and release your yesterdays to the crucified Christ. “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”