Carpe Diem
or
Seize the day!
The definition for Carpe Diem is :used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future.
The definition for Seize is :take hold of suddenly and forcibly
Last week I was talking to my teammate/friend Jeremy, and he asked me what my challenge was for that week. I thought about it and what I was challenged with that week was, what I am going to do after the race. Since we are about to hit the last leg of the race, I started to bring forward of what some options could be for after the race. We talked about it and that was that.
Two days later I was at church and the Pastor who is also our contact said he feels like the Lord has a word for each of us. He looks at me first and tells me this, “God wants you to not think about the future, for what he has for you is great. He will take me and use me to do great things. Focus on the now and the future will take care of itself.” After he said this all I could do was smile and let out a little laugh because of the conversation I had two days earlier.
It’s funny how God will speak to us quickly at times and other times not so quick.
Proverbs 16:9 says “A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.”
Proverbs 19:21 says “There are many plans in a man’s heart, Nevertheless the Lord’s counsel- that will stand.”
We can have all these plans to do so many things. The sky is the limit, but when you are in the Lord’s will it’s his counsel that will lead you into the greatness he has planned for you. Just like it says in Jeremiah 29:11– “For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.”
My future plans are great, for I may not know them now but what I do know is that God will blow my mind as he continually does.
Matthew 6:34 says “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
When I read this scripture I think of my contact from month 2 in Honduras, Tony. His ministry is called “Don’t miss the Opportunity.” It’s about focusing on the present day instead of the future. When we start thinking of things in the future we miss out on what his happening in the now. I love the definition of Seize, but mainly where it says forcibly. If we are to “Seize the day” we are to take hold of the day forcibly. For the enemy comes in to try and kill, steal, and destroy. If we take on our day’s forcibly we show that chump who’s boss! We should not give him a single foothold into our lives. The Lord has a lot to give us in the present and even more in the future, but we must continue to stay focused on the now and give little thought to the future.
Four more months and there is still so much to do.
To take in, pour out, experience, give and receive.
That I will not only talk about it, but Be about it.
With now less than 130 days left on the race, I will
continue to Seize every day and every moment.
(Some people wait a lifetime… for a moment like this.)
