CHANGE YOUR FOCUS from MESSES to MERCY

You cannot reach forward into what God has for you today if your hands are still holding onto what happened to you yesterday. Consider this: There’s an engaging Peanuts cartoon where Lucy is apologizing to Charlie Brown for missing a fly ball during a baseball game. She’s sorry she missed the fly ball and says it’s because she started remembering all the others she missed.  “The past got in my eyes,” she says. Thus, let us change our focus from the messes of our past to the mercies of God. "Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead" (Philippians 3:13).