Have you been in dire straights as of yesterday? Has everything gone wrong in your life? Do you wonder how you will be able to stand all the pressure, and do you wish that you would just die?

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

"Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our plans and operations are like the spider's web. Life is as frail, and the thread of it as brittle, as one of those which constitute the well-wrought and curious, but fragile habitation of that insect.(TSK.)

You may say; "Yesterday I was ill, with no comfort, I was poor, and no one aided me, I was lame, and no one helped me, I was afraid, and no one quieted my fears. I was homeless, and hungry, and no one took me in nor fed me, I was naked, and no one clothed me, yesterday I was alone in my sorrows."

You say that, you were at the point of giving up, your pain, sorrow, desires, anguish, and hopelessness consumed you. But isn't yesterday gone? Hasn't the Lord given you a today to be concerned with?

The problems of yesterday are gone, the effect of them will no more come to you, for as today arrives, yesterday is no more. You will not feel the pain of yesterday, the hunger, the loneliness, the sorrow will never be felt by you again. As the wind blows and vanishes away, never to be felt by you again, so are the yesterdays of life.

The best thing about yesterday is that, it will never come again, so is it with our forgiven sin, and faithlessness in God. We have been forgiven of all our yesterdays, no more will we have to be held accountable for our mistakes, unbelief, the times we have stumbled, or cried out in desperation forgetting God.

We have all survived yesterday, for the Lord is faithful in His promises.

"For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten(70); and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years(80), yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away."

We fly away from our yesterdays, as if they never happened, but we must remember, for yesterday to really collapse in the shadows of our lives, we must ask forgiveness of our sins today.

Our anger of yesterday must be removed before today arrives, for as it is written; "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath."

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath, for the wrath of yesterday may become a stumbling block today. The wrath of yesterday must be forgiven, even before tomorrow becomes today, for who shall say if we shall be alive in the morning?

Who shall say that the strength you had yesterday, will be there, for you again, in the morning, your faith, hope, and even your very existence, may be in peril tomorrow. So we must come to grips with today, its pain, sorrow, adversity, poverty, wealth, decisions, and our trespasses, before today becomes a yesterday.

"Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul."

Your yesterdays may bring back terrible memories, pain and trouble. Should I have done this or done that, did I make the right decisions, did I make the correct choices? Did I forget to do something, or have I done something that I should not have done? "O woe is me in my spirit, my soul aches, and my tears have consumed me, for I am at ends for my yesterdays."(ars)

"I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me." Day and night consume me for I have seen the wickedness of yesterday. Men have gone too and fro, making a mockery of my God and His Son. I have seen the pain, and sorrow, of nation, going about trying to call upon the Lord and have no knowledge of Him. I have seen the homeless, hungry, and dieing, many without hope, desperate to make today, a yesterday, so they can observe tomorrow. The dead know not what is on the move today, yesterday no longer concerns them, and tomorrow will never come, so the evil of it shall never effect them, they have all gone to their judgment.

Yesterday; The day last past; the day next before the present.

"We are but of yesterday, and know nothing."

"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." For we do not know if today will become a yesterday, or weather tomorrow will welcome us. We have the evil of today to be concerned with. The Lord has provided you all with the things necessary to complete yesterday, if not then why are you still here? Wouldn't yesterday have been the doom, and gloom, that would have ended your life?

Let us read;

"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."

"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." ars.

Job 8., Psa 90:4, Psa 90:9-10, Eph 4:26 Isa 38:13-15 TSK Webster Mat 6:34 1Co 10:13 Heb 13:5-6