The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is His faithfulness; His mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in Him.” Lamentations 3:22-24 (NLT)

I am not going to pretend like I have this all figured out. We are going to embark on this training to “seize the day” together. The reality is that none of us make it out of this season called life alive. We all have an entrance date, birth, and an exit date, death. Not one of us knows exactly what the timeframe is but each of us have the moment in front of us, if there is still breath in our lungs. So why don’t we cease that moment as if it were our last breath?

There is a list of distractions that keep us from doing so. I hope that at the end of our journey together we learn from them, remove them or at least minimize them until our moments really matter. If we were to be honest, those precious moments are what we can be most assured of because not one of us is promised tomorrow.

We also will be constantly holding these moments up against eternity. Eternal mindedness frees us from the painful moments of this journey. The moments of disappointment, loss, hurt, pain, injury, sickness, disease and fears. Death and loss reminding us of how temporary this life is. We are a mere blip on the timeline of the temporary things of this world.

When God created time, it in no way disrupted eternity. When God created us, He created us out of complete love and faithfulness to you and to me. He doesn’t make mistakes. You were meant to be here. The proof is in the breath you breathe. Let us not take that for granted regardless of the painful parts of our journey. Not one part of it is wasted. We can learn from it. With our eyes on eternity and the promises of God we have hope for our future.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord, “They are plans for good and not disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.” Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NLT)

Lord, help us root out the distractions we struggle with that keep us from the moments that really matter. Let us learn them and let them go. Help us exchange the temporary things that steal our moments away for the eternal things like truth, faithfulness, peace, mercy, hope and love that enrich our moments. Amen.#jointhejourney #devotional #beautifullybroken #khoward #k4gsus #writer #journey #author #seizetheday