Now is the time to look for the positive in this negative environment. If you watch the news for even two minutes you will have your fill of fear and defeat before you even realize what’s being poured into you. We have to remember however the news is merely a report of “today”, it’s not the truth of “tomorrow”.
Let’s contemplate what that means in the deeper places of our hearts. No one can survive without hope. We are designed to continually drink from a place of hope. Without it we die. Every one of us has met someone who has given themselves over to the lie of “today”! There is a word in our vocabulary we should look at closely. We need to know it because it’s time we live for “tomorrow” and the truth of what is to come.
ANTICIPATE….to feel or realize beforehand; foresee, to look forward to, especially with pleasure; expect, to deal with beforehand; act so as to mitigate, nullify, or prevent, to cause to happen in advance; accelerate, to use in advance, as income not yet available, to pay (a debt) before it is due…