You could be stressed out today because you're "here" when you want to be "there." You are in the "present" when you want to be in the "future." You don't like your current job. You want to be out of the company. You don't like the season you are in your life; you want something else for your life. Maybe "here" is being in a job that is below your capabilities and the prospects are few. I don't doubt that some of you have that dream and that in some cases, that dream will be fulfilled. But if you don't learn to love life then. Here's the danger we face: we focus so much on tomorrow that we never live today. Someone once said this, "It is uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living."
I think some of us have "the grass is greener on the other side" mentality. But we need to learn to live in the moment God has given us. And that's tough during times of transitions because we usually aren't where we want to be. We need to realise deeply that the present moment is all we'll ever have. Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen on the Now."
In Exodus 3:5 God says to Moses, "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." We've heard the story so many times that the most obvious lesson is overlooked. Here it is: the 'holy ground' wasb't the Promised Land. The 'holy ground' was right where Moses was standing!
Don't be so focused on the Promised Land that you never take off your sandals and recognize that God wants you to experience Him in the "here and now". Even if you're in the middle of a transition and the ground is shifting underneath you, you're standing on holy ground.
The day you embrace today and live in it, no matter how badly you feel about it; no matter how much you think it is not where you want to be; that day you have risen above the tides of change. You have stood on your holy ground.
(adapted from Senior Pastor Guna Raman's devotion on "Managing Transitions in A Downturn")
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