WouldaShouldaCoulda

Do you ever find yourself in the WSC? The ‘WouldaShouldaCoulda’ trap. You know, thinking about what might have been if you had just done or said something different. Or wondering what life would have been like if THIS would have happened to you, or THAT wouldn’t have happened. A year or so ago we did an outreach drama called The View From Regret. Are you familiar with that view? Sometimes the WSC trap is about things from months or even years ago (It seems like everybody has some WSC memories from high school). But we can fall into the WSC trap over something that happened recently as well, even as recently as a few minutes a go.

If you are well acquainted with the WouldaShouldaCoulda trap, let the following words from A. W. Tozer inspire you this week to get out of the trap by pressing into your relationship with God.

“As we move deeper into personal acquaintance with Triune God I think our life emphasis will shift from the past and the present to the future. Slowly we will become children of a living hope and sons of a sure tomorrow. Our hearts will be tender with memories of yesterday and our lives sweet with gratitude to God for the sure way we have come; but our eyes will be focused more and more upon the blessed hope of tomorrow.” (A. W. Tozer, Praise in Three Dimensions, Fifty-Two Selected Chapters, p. 156)