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  MAKING THE MOST OF TODAY
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: We must focus on living in the present and doing the will of
God in our own day, rather than trying to turn back the clock or
recapture the past.

Topics: "Divine Purpose", "Living in the Present"
Scripture References: Philippians 3:13

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A.W. Tozer emphasizes the futility of longing for the past and
encourages believers to focus on the present and future. He argues that
each individual is called to serve their own generation and that true
fulfillment comes from engaging with God in the present moment. Tozer
warns against the temptation to retreat into nostalgia, suggesting that
such behavior reflects a lack of willingness to confront current
challenges. Instead, he urges Christians to explore the richness of
divine grace available today and to fulfill their God-given
responsibilities. Ultimately, it is in our 'today' that we can
experience God's presence and purpose.

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We have little sympathy for the psychology expressed in the various
"Back To" movements among Christians today. Our direction is not back,
but forward. Few acts are as futile as sitting down and singing
"Backward, turn backward, O Time, in thy flight." We cannot turn the
clock back. We cannot bring back better days. And it is not necessary or
desirable that we should. If by means of some fantastic "time machine"
one of us were permitted to go backward and visit some favorite period
of the past, he would in all probability find the experience extremely
disappointing. He would find himself a kind of anachronism, wholly out
of place and thoroughly unhappy. To each one it is given to occupy his
own spot in history.

He must, like David, do the will of God by serving his own generation.

It is in his own day that he must meet God in satisfying encounter. It
is in his today, not in some pensive yesterday, that he must explore the
riches of divine grace, do his allotted work and win his crown.
Psychologists attribute certain abnormal mental conditions to an
unconscious desire to escape the responsibilities of adult life by
returning to the quiet and security of the prenatal state. Our habit of
trying to recapture the spiritual glow of some better time by going
backward creates a suspicion that we have lost the will to fight and are
retiring to a safer spot behind the lines where we can sit down in peace
to dream of armies defeated and battles won.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/making-the-most-of-today/
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