Mar 27, 2023
Your Two Testimonies
Your past and your present
First your past
The first you can’t change what happened but you can change
how you think about it
Do you look back with regret and sadness and feel sorry for
yourself and self condemned?
Or instead do you see Gods hand through it all, His faithful
presence, and His plan to change you and shape you through and
because of your past experiences, leading you to be the man He
wants you to be.
Your second testimony is your present.
Story of man at work saying he was fantastic and that he
decided long ago he would be fantastic just for today, not worrying
about tomorrow.
I don’t know if he’s a believer. I hope to find out
soon.
So I don’t know the source of his philosophy on being
fantastic, but I agree with the sentiment.
Yeshua on do not worry about tomorrow. "Therefore
do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we
drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these
things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you
need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of
God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to
you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will
worry about its own things. Sufficient for the
day is its own trouble." - Matt
6:31-34
"This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be
glad in it." - Ps 118:24
We cannot change the past, we can only change or affect how we
think and talk today about our past.
Will we focus on ourselves or on God. Will we see God in our
past? If we do, it may be the only way we can be fantastic today
which will allow us to have a powerful testimony today, which is
our second testimony.
Here’s another thought. Every day we contribute to our first
testimony, our past, i.e. today's present becomes tomorrow's past.
So as we make positive changes in our daily testimony we make
positive changes in our past testimony as well. Over time these
seeds were sowing will reap a harvest so that over time we’ll have
a better outlook on our past testimony.
"11 And they overcame
him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their
testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death." -
Rev 12:11