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Photo by junP "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be ." Deuteronomy 33:25 The blessing above is taken from that given to the tribe of Asher as Moses was preparing to die. I found the following hand-written note in the margin of my Bible, taken from With the Word by Warren Wiersbe: "The best way to destroy today is to regret yesterday and worry about tomorrow." I believe God wants us to live in the present! He gives us instruction concerning the past and the future in Philippians 3:13,14. Forget what is past. Yesterday is finished. There is nothing that can be changed about it. When the sins and mistakes of the past have been confessed, forget them. After all, God has forgotten them! (Hebrews 8:12 and Hebrews 10:17) Many times our regrets about the past are the things that keep us from living for today. Reach forth to the future. Rather than worry about tomorrow, look forward to it in anticipation....

This is continued from yesterday's post, stating seven lessons I learned from the illness and death of my friend, Kim Boling. Again, if you don't know Kim's story, you can read it here . Mike and Kim with their four children Lesson #5: I can endure hard things and do it with courage and grace. As I watched Michael and Kim's parents deal with each new day and eventually with Kim's death, I realized that, through the grace of God and His strength, I can do hard things. I can deal with whatever God has for me, because He is my strength (Psalm 18:2,32; Psalm 73:26; Isaiah 12:2). I don't have that strength within myself, but with God's help, I do (II Corinthians 12:9). Unsaved people (and perhaps many saved people) do not and will not understand how a family can deal with the sudden death of their wife and daughter without becoming bitter, but God promises that we can do all things - through Christ (Philippians 4:13) - and His everlasting arm...