Investing In Your Future | Victoria Osteen
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Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you enjoyed today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share it with a friend? We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. Listen, I want to remind us to spend our time investing in our future. Don't invest in the past. Investing in the past is when you relive your hurts, your pains, your disappointments. See, it's easy to focus on who hurt you, what didn't work out, what mistake you've made. But you know what that is? It's a big waste of time and energy. We can't do anything about what happened in our past. It's done, it's over with, it's finished. But we can do something about today.
And when you begin to focus on what you can change and not what you can't change, that is a good investment in the future. You know, we weren't designed to carry around a lot of unnecessary negative baggage.
What is the importance of investing in your future?
And sometimes we fill our bags with bitterness, resentment, heartache. But can I tell you that you've got to get up every day and let that stuff go? Forgive the people who offended you. Release them. Forgive yourself. You see, when you are weighed down with all of this junk, it's hard to see where you're going. It's hard to even be ready to get there. One time, Joel and I, we had scheduled back-to-back work trips. We really don't ever do this, but this just happened to be an instance that we did this. We had come home from a week out and we came back in and we only had like two hours to be at home. And then we'd have to turn around, head back to the airport. Well, on the way home, all I could think about was those dirty clothes in my suitcase.
There was a week's worth of dirty clothes in my suitcase. When I got home, I dumped all those dirty clothes and I began to refresh my suitcase. Something amazing happened. Where I was tired and anxious on my way home, just thinking about all that in my suitcase, I became refreshed. And you know what? I was prepared to go on my next trip. Because I had exchanged that dirty clothes with fresh new clothes. And do you know a lot of times we get so weighed down with this emotional baggage of clutter that's full of pain and heartache that we lose our passion and excitement for living. In fact, we're not even prepared where God wants us to go. We're just too weighed down and anxious. Can I tell you that you need to refresh your emotional baggage every single day?
You need to learn to travel light. Because I can tell you this, where you're going is far more important than where you've been. But you can't be weighed down from the past. You know, too often, people don't even enjoy what they're doing today. They can't enjoy the opportunities that they're living in today because they're too focused on yesterday. There was a woman who had been divorced for a couple of years.
How can letting go of the past improve your life?
And one day she met this man. And he was a very nice man. He seemed to be very happy. He was successful. He went to church. She was excited about the possibilities. But she made a mistake. When she went into that relationship, she began to constantly talk about her hurts and pains of the past. She would describe why she acted certain ways or why she said certain things. It was because she was so hurt by her first husband. You know, after a while, that man told one of her friends, he said, you know, she's so focused on what happened to her. She can't move forward. We're not making any kind of connection here. And I really don't feel like the relationship is right. So he decided that he was just going to quit seeing her because she made the mistake of living in the past.
She failed at an opportunity that she had for her future. See, when you carry negative baggage into your relationships, you can ruin many relationships. See, we've got to decide that it's time to let it go. It's time to put it in the past, to shut the door to it. One time Joel and I were going to this like highly secure government building. And so there was two sets of double doors. So we stood in front of the first set of doors and it opened up.
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