Are You Getting Caught In The Thicket Of Life or Are You Focusing On God Completely and Serving Him Faithfully?

It's very difficult to walk forward when you keep looking backwards.   It's time to focus ahead.   The word ahead means in or to the front.   It means in advance of or before.   It's time to keep your eyes focused on what God is doing and to stop trying to go back to things in your life that have already been done whether they be good or bad.   We are to remember the good and allow our memories to serve as a tool that undergirds our faith for what we are needing or expecting God to do in our present and future but we can't stay in our past.    

Understand, God says in His Word that He has set "before" us an open door.  He says in Isaiah 43:19 that He is doing a new thing and that He will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.   So even if you can't see your way through the "thicket" of life, know that God has already made a way.  A thicket is a dense growth of trees, bushes, or shrubbery that is very close together, often making it difficult for people to walk through.    In life, situations can come up in our lives and can sometimes surround us and cause it to be very difficult for us to see our way out but we have to know, trust, and understand that God is with us and He has already made a way of escape for us.   

One of the biggest problems we have is that we have a tendency to look back because we want what we had instead of desiring what God has prepared for us.   As we look back, we tend to get lost in the thicket of life.   We tend to get caught up or entangled in the things that are surrounding us instead of staying focused on God and pressing through to receive his promises.    It's time to focus on what is ahead of us and to let go of what is behind.    It's time to live in expectation of God's future promises and to let go of the pain of our past.   It's time to focus on God completely and to serve Him faithfully.   

Isaiah 43:19
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert   

WORSHIP FOR TODAY ... 

"It Is Well"

Ministered By Kristene DiMarco & Bethel Music

REFERENCE:   It Is Well - Kristene DiMarco & Bethel Music - You Make Me Brave. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNqo4Un2uZI