History Always Repeats Itself

History always repeats itself. That’s what I’ve heard anyway and I would have to agree. I’ll say in the past month I have been feeling very sentimental. Today on my Facebook memories this post popped up.

And I couldn’t ignore the truth within and the fact that what I wrote three years ago is so familiar for the season of life I’m in right now. A lot has changed in three years, I no longer live in the same town, go to the same school, and hang out with the same people day to day. In the same way, a lot has stayed constant in three years I still live in an amazing town, go to a wonderful school, have amazing and supportive friends and family, and stress about thing I really shouldn’t. In the same way I was stressing about college decisions back then, today I am stressing about internship applications and graduation date decisions. I all to often forget that I have no reason to stress, I forget what a blessing it is to have theses decisions, I forget that I am so richly blessed not only in physical things but in emotional and spiritual relationships. I forget who has given me these blessing and how much I don’t deserve them.

Philippians 4:6-7

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

It has always amazed me to look back and see how much I have grown, whether that is in maturity, skill, or knowledge. And I have grown a lot in all those areas in the past three years but it is also amazing to look back and see the childlike spiritual understanding I had. While I was distracted back then, like I am today, I had no Facebook reminder on how I should look at my situation. I simply dug into my Bible and found the answer that was so clearly laid out before me. In this world we are constantly “busy”; we have to make time for the things we really care about. But I often push off the things that are most important to me to focus my time on sinful distraction, not necessarily sinful in and of themselves but sinful in the way that I use them. Facebook, twitter, instagram, socializing, schoolwork, they are all a big part of our lives but there should be nothing that is a bigger part of our lives than the pursuit of our heavenly King. In doing this we distract ourselves from the one whom all our blessing come from, who helps us to strengthen and grow in our faith. We distract ourselves form purposefully pursuing Christ.

We fail. Every. Single. Day. We neglect God and take his gifts for granite. So I challenge you to every day, or at least every week, sit down, write down all your blessing, and thank God for them. Talk to God about anything and everything, because He cares. Lucky for us, even though we fail, constantly, Christ never failed. Christ was perfect. He died on the cross to take all of our failure from us, to wipe it away and to give us eternal perfection, where we don’t get distracted or neglect the one who is most important. And that ridiculously awesome part of history will repeat itself when Christ comes back on the last day; when all believers will live in paradise forever with Him.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

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