Live in the Present

I am so grateful for something I have been learning, and that is to live more and more in the present.

There is a lot of temptation to be thinking about the past, either longing for it or thinking how terrible it was and ruminating over it — whether it happened a year ago or many years ago. The other temptation is to be worried about the future; what is going to happen, even tomorrow. As metaphysicians, we need to be living in the present. The Bible says, “now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”

In the Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus said, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” By that it is meant that we have enough things to deal with today, to think about, to pray about, and ask God about.

To live in the present moment is really such a wonderful thing because you are present with the Lord, you are feeling His presence and power, and you are leaving tomorrow to Him — and you know that He also requires the past. This is to be left with Him as well.

One of my favorite hymns says, “Why search the future and the past? Why do ye look with tearful eyes and seek far off for paradise? Before your feet, Life’s pearl is cast.”(Hymn 391)