While It Is Today...

We all wish to be in a different place tomorrow than we are today. And today, we may wish that yesterday wasn't nearly as bad, risky or difficult as we made it out to seem. Then again, maybe it really was and where we are today is exactly right.

Whatever the circumstance is, effectiveness comes by making the best decision you can with the information you have and what environment you are able to live with, for those elements which you have control or influence over.

Is regret real? Yes, but so is the ability to do things differently today as well as the conviction to continue with what you set out to do and figure out the best way to move forward, for whatever needs to change.

Too much worry and concern and "woulda, shoulda, coulda" only robs the energy and focus that you have today so that you don't have that same sentiment tomorrow. In fact, if you spend too much time in that realm, it will start overtaking tomorrows resources before you get there!

We'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow and we said that yesterday.

So whatever today looks like, whether in your life, your faith or your ministry, make it work and make it count. Live with the best of your reality, overcome the worst of that reality and trust God will all of your reality.

It may not feel efficient, it may not look effective; but line upon line, precept upon precept, we walk one step at a time; His lamp to our path and His light to our feet.

Pray, this #effectiveSunday, that regret and struggle would not frustrate today's reality. Pray for courage of conviction and follow-through to implement the decisions we make. Pray for wisdom and direction, in making those decisions; that we not leave out seeking the face of God and the counsel of wise friends and people of faith. May we be empowered by the Holy Spirit and encouraged by the grace of God, that He is sovereign over all things. Pray that fear would not hinder us, nor our mistakes hold us back from grabbing onto the promises of God and seeing them established and at work in our lives.

For the glory of God
And the cause of Jesus Christ.
We are over-comers
Because of His great love for us.

- PNC