Moving Forward

Just had a few thoughts to share with you tonight in a blog called "Moving Forward"

Life throws alot of curve balls are way, things we never expect to happen simply happen.
This thing called life is unpredictable, there's only one who knows what happened in the past, what happened earlier today and what will happen tomorrow, the one who is the same yesterday, today and forever and that person is Jesus Christ.

The last month has been one of the hardest months of my life, losing my dad a few days after Christmas.

With life and death the simple things have started meaning something new to me.
Spending time with your wife, siblings and parents is priceless. Keeping those who mean something close to you and sharing your life with them is essential.

So, many times in my life I have been guilty of getting "caught up" with things that mean nothing at the end of the day. If it's a fight or argument with a family member, if it's allowing my feelings to be hurt by someone whose intentions weren't of that.

Whatever it was, like alot of people I would allow it to rule my life for a short time and to be honest sometimes longer than that.

But what I have discovered within the last 30 days of my life is that all these things "of the world" mean nothing. At the end of the day all that matters is your family and your friends.

With all that said there's only one thing to do when we come to this moment, this crossroads in life and that is to MOVE FORWARD! Don't dwell in what has happened but LIVE and BE in the moment that you are in right now!

Too many times have I been guilty of living in yesterday or even tomorrow. But how many times do we truly live for today, how many times do we live up to the potential that today has offered us?

For me the answer to that question used to be rarely, but from now I'm moving forward and I choose to live in the moment, I choose to live for today.

God's word says that we do not know what tomorrow may hold. God's word says that there is time and a season for everything, but one thing that always remains, in my humble opinion is that no matter what season our life may be in we should be living our lives with every ounce of LIFE we can.

Give it all you got! Waste your energy, tire yourself out! Give it everything you have and chase after God! Seize the day, because after all we will only live once here on earth but the life you live right now determines where you will spend eternity!

So, I challenge you to make this committment as I do for myself.

Tomorrow, wake up and thank God for another day of life, tell the ones you that you love them, lead those who follow you, encourage those who are down and share the love of God with EVERYONE you come into contact with! Don't hold your opinion back, don't leave things unsaid, but in everything BE WHO God created you to be!

I love you all and I am excited about what today will bring us!

Pastor Phil