Today's Devotional

 

 January 16, 2009

                                                                                                                        

Subject:  We Live History, But We Don't Write It

1 Corinthians4:5 "Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God."

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Last evening President Bush gave his farewell speech.  He talked about what he saw as his accomplishments and his setbacks.  I was watching this on MSNBC and if you know much about that channel, it's more or less the "we hate Bush" channel.  At any rate, their "analysts" determined in their minds what history would say about the George W. Bush legacy.   

I think we many times mistake today for history.  What am I saying?  I'm saying that we live today and when something happens, we try to immediately identify the weight that thing will have 20, 30 or 100 years down the road.  Sure we can identify some things as having a monumental historic impact, but other things are not so easily gauged when it comes to determining the impact for future generations.

We really don't have to predict what our grandchildren are going to say about us.  What we need to do though is make sure that we are living righteously today before God.  Every day is historical, but we should leave the historic determinations to God.  After all, we'll be long gone by the time history says what it is going to say about us.  Yes, we don't get to write our own history, but we do get to live it.  Be right before Him now.        

Carlen