Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:00 — )
PROGRAM D-8468
I have pointed out that living for the moment is living with a short-term perspective, not an eternal perspective. It is living for money and what it can buy. It is living for success and fame. Living for the moment is all about us, and we are all susceptible to it. I have to admit that there are times when I am living for the moment, when I am deceived by the world’s offer of instant gratification, freedom from pain or suffering, and having what I want when I want it.
Remember that the moment doesn’t last long. So, if and when you live for the moment, whatever gain you may realize won’t last long. David wrote this in Psalm 103:15-18:
The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more. But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children—with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
Living in the Moment
Living in the moment means that we live our lives a day at a time, not borrowing from yesterday or tomorrow. It means we don’t live in worry or fear of the past or the future. It means that we understand we only have today. Yesterday is gone; tomorrow is only a promise.
Living in the moment is living with an eternal perspective. It is seeing our daily lives from God’s viewpoint. Remember what Jesus taught us from Matthew 6:
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. . . Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?. . . But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6: 25,27,33-34)