When we walk in Holiness, we will live in the “now”!
As I wrote yesterday, we are to diligently hearken to the Voice of THE LORD. HIS Voice is intangible thus we can only hear using only one of our five physical senses.
When something is tangible, it has a past and a future. When it is intangible, it relies solely on the present. Most Christians focus on the past or the future whereas FATHER wants us to focus on the present.
Jesus was making this point when He spoke in Matthew chapter 6:
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;
29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33 But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
In other Words, “Refuse to worry about tomorrow, but deal with each challenge that comes your way, one day at a time. Tomorrow will take care of itself.” As we walk in Holiness and hearken diligently to what THE LORD is saying, we will deal with each event or challenge according to HIS perfect Plan, Will, and pleasure.
We will not worry about the future or dwell on the past. Any anxiety will dissipate from our consciousness.
When we focus on hearing GOD’S Voice, we will walk in the present as Jesus urged us to do.
Moses recorded by THE SPIRIT in Exodus chapter 3:
13 Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”
14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.‘”
15 Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My Name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’
Our Heavenly Father is not restricted to the past or future. In essence, HE is always in “the now”. HE is not the “I was who I was” or “I will be who I will be”, but HE IS THE GREAT I AM, without beginning or end!
Those who are walking in Holiness will focus on “the now” and not be concerned about the past or future. The future is in FATHER’S Hands.
When the disciples asked Jesus about the coming of the Son of Man, Jesus responded by saying in Matthew chapter 24:
36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
We are to simply focus on walking in Holiness and not concern ourselves with attempting to discover the day or the hour!