Moments?

I've had this wonderful "eye-opening" experience these past few weeks in which I felt like God was teaching me to focus on the moments. I mean why do we even worry beyond each moment? We can't go back to change the moments we've lived and we have no power to forsee the moments to come. All we really have is this very moment we are in. So why not enjoy it to the fullest? What a wonderful realization! So why can't I live it? Oh I can live it when life is going GREAT! When things are good, I just LOVE each and every moment. But when life throws me a fast ball that hits me square in the nose, I regret the moments I've had and worry about the moments to come. Anything God taught me about living for the moments goes right out the window! And worry climbs right in!



Why do I resort to worrying? Phillipians 4:6-7 tells us not worry about anything but to pray and ask God with a thankful heart and we will know His peace ( I soooooo paraprhased this). It's sounds so easy to do when I read it in the Bible and look it up in my "Favorite Scriptures" journal. But when I need to put it into action--I fail BIG time. I begin to comtomplate the moments God has given me along with the ones he has in store for me. Instead of enjoying them I become full of regret and anxiousness over them. Sometimes I build a wall of worry so high it takes me awhile to climb over it! Only through God's word do I find myself able to scale the top of that wall. And once again, I am able to enjoy the moments. I hope one day to enjoy those scary and anxious moments just as much as the joyful ones. On that day, God might even say, well done good and faithful servant!



So why not worry??????

--John 4:4 The one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.



--Exodus 3:14 I AM who I AM (I AM sent us)



--And my very favorite...
ISAIAH 41:
I have chosen you.
I AM with you.
I AM your God.
I will strengthen you.
I will help you.
I will uphold you.