In “Here but Not Here: Following God Where We’ve Never Been Before,” Senior Pastor Travis Tullis reminds us that we can honor yesterday without living there. Hebrews 3:7–19 warns us that repeated resistance to God can harden our hearts until we no longer respond when we hear His voice. Israel had witnessed God’s faithfulness, yet fear and unbelief kept them from fully entering what He had prepared for them.

In uncertain moments, we face the same choice: respond in faith or retreat in fear. Our faith matters most when it is tested under pressure. Faith does not deny our past experiences; it simply refuses to make experience lord over our future. What happened yesterday may inform us, but it should never have greater authority than the God who is leading us today.

Joshua 1:1–2 demonstrates this transition. Moses was gone, and a significant season had ended, but God told Joshua, “Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan.” Joshua could honor what God had done through Moses without remaining attached to the previous season. Moving forward required accepting that God’s purpose was continuing, even though the circumstances were changing.

Joshua 3:4 takes this truth even further: “You have not passed this way before.” Following God sometimes means entering unfamiliar territory without the comfort of knowing exactly what comes next. We must ask ourselves: Are we physically here while our hearts and minds are still somewhere else? We cannot ask God to take us forward while insisting that everything remain the same.

Thank you, Senior Pastor Tullis, for encouraging us to move forward and higher together. May we remain present where God has placed us, responsive to His voice and willing to follow Him into unfamiliar places, becoming fruitful image bearers who trust that the God who was faithful yesterday is still leading us today.