Right Now

Since a long while I couldn’t come up with something to meditate on in my morning readings in the Word of God. I don’t know why, maybe there was nothing to be found, or maybe I was not listening to God’s Spirit who wanted to teach me, maybe it’s not it at all. I do have my ups and downs in my readings and I often feel like it’s been useless, just a routine but sometimes it’s good.
This morning I wrote “NOW” on my right arm. I read in Ezekiel 33 and it gave me peace. Verse 12 says, “… The righteousness of the righteous man will not save him when he disobeys, and the wickedness of the wicked man will not cause him to fall when he turns from it.” God is a God of right now, today. This verse sounds unfair to the ears of the fallen righteous people but it sets the repentant wicked people free. God doesn’t care about what I did yesterday or 10 years ago for Him (although He does) what He cares for the most is my right now, my today.
If I choose today to do as I desire instead of obeying God, I can’t lean on the devotion and the righteous stuff I did in the past, God will deal with me according to what I choose to do right now. In the same way, but somehow the opposite, if I turn to God in spite of yesterday’s sins and do what God asks me to do, God does not deal with me according to the past, but to what I choose to do right now.
I think it’s a real encouragement to know that our God is a God in the present. Yes, He knows what is behind and what is ahead of me and the way I’ll finish the race, but He walks with me day by day and always offers me to obey Him, to have peace, everyday, every time I turn to Him.

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