Doing something again is a nice thought, but none of us are granted do-overs in this life. Much as we may wish we could, we can't do it all again. As deeply as we might like to go back to certain seasons of our lives or revisit certain attitudes or decisions we made in our younger years on a timeline, with a specific beginning and a specific end. And wherever we may be on that line, going forward is the only option.
We can't go back, and we can't stand still.
We have to take life as it comes. Each day brings a fresh opportunity to follow the Lord and -in His power and grace-begin life anew from this point forward. Praise His name! The Lord's mercies "are new every morning" (Lamentations 3:23).
So yesterday is yesterday and today is today, and life must be lived to the hilt in the 24 hours directly before us. Even so, here we are-with the deep desire in our hearts to touch your life and the lives of others by pointing you toward wisdom we wish we'd possessed and practised when we were younger.
A woman named Henrietta Mears was asked near the end of her life,"What would you do differently if you could live your life over again?" Without hesitation she replied, "I would trust God more." Now if you knew the history of this remarkable woman, you would say she already trusted God in a deeply significant way. A Sunday school teacher at Hollywood Presbysterian for many years, Henrietta taught generations of young boys, many of whom went into fulltime ministry. She never married, and in the course of her long and fruitful ministry, Henrietta founded the Forest Home Christian Conference Center in Southern California and wrote a layman's overview of Scripture that is widely used to this day: What the Bible Is All About.
Towards the end of her life, however, looking back on all her opportunities and all she had accomplished for the Lord, Henrietta said, "If I had to do over again, I would trust God even more."
All of us has seen miracles of provision, direction, empowerment and headling in our walks with God through the years. Each of us has found the Lord to be completely faithful to His promises, blessing our lives above and beyond what we ever imagined.
Each of us trusts God.
But all if us wish we'd trusted Him even more.
A man stopped on the trail to ponder the view, he noticed a little sparrow by the river's edge, dipping its tiny beak into the water. Then, having satisfied its thrist with a drop or two of the river, it flew away. My friend felt the Lord speak to him in that moment, "That's how much of My grace and power you are appropriating in your life. It's barely a drop of a might river."
No matter how much we trust the Lord, no matter how deeply we dip into His resources, there will always, always be more. . . infinitely more. We can't trust the Lord too much. . . and all of us trust Him too little.
Even though we look back now and wish we'd realized this more in our younger days, you can actually do something about it in your life now!
You've decided to hang in there and trust God through a pressure-filled season of life. Your decision hasn't been easy, and maybe the road ahead doesn't look all that great. But you've made up your mind to trust God more. You will not regret that choice. Not now, not tommorrow, not forever.
Extracted from Chapter Seven: Youniquely Woman
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