I was working through a rough season in my life where I had the hardest time figuring out a funk that I was in and could not shake. Allow me to define “funk” real quick. See a funk is a moment in your life, a vapor if you will, where us over analyzers find themselves unable to explain the bottle of emotions and feelings that we feel. For me, it seemed like everything I would do, I would find myself second guessing everything that I was trying to undertake.

I began to question many things, but quickly realized that if you ask a bunch of questions without answering any of them, then all you have is a bunch of questions and no answers. I also came to realize that when you are in a funk, most times it comes when the reality that is your life does not line up with our desired reality. We find ourselves in a perception of reality that is not true and typically could be best described as some sort of a “dream world” of ideology and, ultimately, ignorance. We get ahead of our life.

Sure, there is a time to dream and allow ourselves to dream a bit; get a grip on what our passions are and what we want our lives to describe when we arrive at certain points in those lives. However, there is something paralyzing when we don’t come back to the hard work of reality and the ultimate need for discipline in the hear and now.

In Matthew 24, Jesus is teaching his closest disciples about His second coming and the events that would lead up to the ultimate end of the current age and the dawn of a new, permanent season of holiness and righteousness that will come about the earth. After taking time to lay all of that out, in verse 25, “See, I have told you ahead of time.” Jesus then goes on to describe how many will come and try and convince the disciples that they are the Christ and that the Second Coming had taken place. And he says what he says in verse 25 so they can be prepared.

There are some things that God implants in us to help guide us into his ultimate Will for our lives. Some of these things are events and opportunities that will happen in the near future. Still some of them are more distant things; things that are far from our grasp right now. But these things are not put in us to paralyze us from the current realities that are our lives. Instead of focusing on the next step or the 14th step in the process that is my life, I need to be vigilant in pursuing the next step, the immediate next step, for my life.

The future will come. The plans that he has for us will produce fruit. In their time. He tells us these things so that we can know what is coming up and we will know that it is his will. Let’s not forget the dreams that he has for us for today. Let’s not miss what is in front of us today.