One of my all time favorite songs is Diana Ross’s  Theme from Mahogany, -it’s first stanza beginning with these questions:

Do you know where you’re going to?

Do you like the things that life is showing you?

Where are you going to?

Do you know?

Soo…do you?  Do you know?  I think that before you can even get a clue, you have to be sure you know where you are at this very moment. Be honest with yourself and ensure that you are living in the present.

“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.  Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?  I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:18-19

Some practical things that you can do to ensure you are “here” in the present and looking toward the future are:

1. Use present or future tense-for example, “This is what I will do” instead of “This is what I should’ve done”

2. Prepare responses to things coming up and not fixes to things which have already been deemed as broken beyond repair.

3.  Always speak positively, knowing that your worth is not determined by your performance.

4. Seek contentment right where you are.

So I ask you again, do you know where you are?  I pray that you will identify that place immediately and begin to navigate to the place you desire to be or even better, the place God wants you to be.