Just some early morning thoughts from me to you…
“I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.”
Philippians 3: 12-14 (NLT)“This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1; 8-9 (ESV)“But forget all that—it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.”
Isaiah 43: 18-19 (NLT)“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.”
Lamentations 3: 22-23 (RSV)
They loved and trusted God.
They believed in the truth in God’s Word.
They believed God was with them in their todays and was already at work changing hearts everywhere, in all the tomorrows of individual lives, and the tomorrows of our Nation.
Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus.
Jackie Robinson withstood boos from stadiums across our country in 1947 as he became the first Black man to play baseball in the Major Leagues, as he took the field each game at 2nd base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. peacefully refused to stop speaking while continuing to move ahead, breaking through barriers set up in our society based upon skin color, as he inspired so many to aspire to fulfill his dream, and transform a Nation, a dream he shared from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 in Washington, DC, when he proclaimed, in part—
“…I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal…’
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today….”
They, and others, trusted in God, and God’s Word gave them the passion, purpose, peace, and power to continue forward under the guiding hand of God, against the most difficult of times, and watch God through them and so many others, lift our Nation to a new and better tomorrow.
What are you facing today? Personally, and in your family?
What do we face as a Nation?
Embrace these empowering words to help you move forward—
“The sun’ll come out tomorrow,
Bet your bottom dollar, that tomorrow there’ll be sun
Just thinking about tomorrow,
Clears away the cobwebs, and the sorrow ’til there’s none.
When I’m stuck with a day that’s gray and lonely
I just stick out my chin, and grin, and say, oh,
The sun’ll come out tomorrow,
Oh, you gotta hang on ’til tomorrow, come what may.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow,
You’re always a day away.”
Press on with the God who strengthens us and loves us.
The God Who is always doing something new for us, Whose mercies never end, and are new every morning, calling us to stand with and be guided by Him, for good.
As together we remember these words of Martin Luther King, Jr.—
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
So, press on. God is there preparing our tomorrows, to walk with Him.
God’s got you. God’s got me.
God’s got us all, and is above all.
In His Name–Scott
Be lifted, empowered, and called by this powerful performance by Sydnie Christmas during “Britain’s Got Talent” of the song “Tomorrow.”
