Where are you going?

So within the past few weeks between meetings with my pastor, books I am reading, and sermons I am listening to a certain theme seems to be coming up. "Where are you going?" This is the question that God asks Hagar in Genesis 16.  He says "where have you come from? and Where are you going?" I believe this is a question that we should all ask ourselves. Where are you today? Where is that in comparison to where you were yesterday? Where do you plan to be tomorrow? We all have the opportunity to change our future, but that starts with changing how we live today., If we keep living life the same way then it will never change. There is a sign in the gym where I work and it says "There are seven days in a week. Someday is not one of them." If we want to be better people, better fathers, better wives, and better children then the process starts with what we do today. My youth pastor likes to say "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" We can say we are trying to change. We can say we are going to quit smoking or start reading our bibles more, but we never will unless we start right now. We sit around moping that we need to change begging God to help us when He is actually just begging us to try. The Devotionals Daily's excerpt had a very good paragraph in it today. It went like this

"But please don’t leave it there. Don’t allow your ache to remain merely an ache. Remember the truth, and allow that truth to seep into your troubled mind so that your ache might begin its transformation into something sacred. Remember what David whispered to God, after yet another near-death escape?

'You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in Your bottle. You have recorded each one in Your book.' - Psalm 56:8"-Sheila Walsh

This world will never change unless the people in it decide to change. "If everyone did half as much work as they expected everyone else to do, this world would be a much better place." Don't wait for tomorrow. Don't wait for someone else to do it. Just do it. Pick up your bible. Go visit your neighbor. Throw away those cigarettes. Wake up on Sunday. Do your best at work. Be nice to those around you and together we can change our future. We can answer the question "Where are you going?" with "to a better place" and we will be the ones making that true.