One Day At A Time

Have you ever worried about the future, or the way things are going to turn out? I do sometimes. Especially the immediate future. It sounds strange, but I don't mind thinking of five or ten years from today because I have a plan, goals to get there, and a vision for my life. It is my immediate future, what will be happen in a week or two, or a month,or within the current year, that I find myself full of worry. I am a performer and worry about how a concert will go, and how a rehearsal will go. I am a senior and college and I worry about how my classes will end and what graduation will entail. Even my job can give me stress because soon I will need to transfer to another state and that is scary. The immediate future is just full of things that make me worry.

Today in my morning devotion, God had to remind me that I was designed by Him and that He is the reason I shouldn't worry. I am a good performer, student, and employee so things will be fine. Not only that, but I am reaching my goals and stretching out for the future. Things will work out because I am following the path given to me by God.

I was then reminded of my life verse. I call it my life verse because it is the grouping of verses that I want to strive to live my life by. When I am not around, or have finally passed away I want people to say something about me that is similar to these verses. Having a life verse/verses/passage is a very good thing. If you are goal oriented, it gives you a life long goal to take steps toward. If you are emotionally motivated it gives you something to care deep down about and can give you a deep charge of joy when you get closer to becoming like it. It doesn't have to be something like turning water to wine, or striving to do the humanly impossible. It should be a simple verse, something so simple that it seems like it should be easy, and yet so profound that it is almost impossible to achieve. A verse to carry you through a lifetime.

My Life Verse(s):
Proverbs 3:5-7 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understandings. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your path straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes, but fear the Lord and shun evil.


For me this verse has taken me so many places. Trusting God is hard because sometimes He doesn't make sense. Being a performer I want to take full credit for my performance, but without God I'd be no where. He has really made my path straight. He lead me to a college, where I met my wife and where I could get the tools I will need when I start to become a professional performer and need to take firm moral stands. He has allowed my to trip a little on the last one and He has shown me great blessings when I obey the last part. There are things that seem ok and right to do by people's standards, but they are nothing that will be helpful in the long run. I found myself displeased and depressed when I did not head the last verse. When I did follow it and stand up for what I felt God had said was right in His word and/or His personal instructions to me, I saw great growth as a person and as a man in Christ.

All of this can be summed up in a single phrase. Plans are great, goals are important, and visions will take you far through life, but what counts most is taking life and living it one day at a time.