What man is he that feareth the Lord?” Psalm 25:12
What are you haunted by? You will say – By nothing, but we are all haunted by something, generally by ourselves, or, if we are Christians, by our experience. The Psalmist says we are to be haunted by God.
The abiding consciousness of the life is to be God, not thinking about Him. The whole of our life inside and out is to be absolutely haunted by the presence of God. A child’s consciousness is so mother-haunted that although the child is not consciously thinking of its mother, yet when calamity arises, the relationship that abides is that of the mother.
So we are to live and move and have our being in God, to look at everything in relation to God, because the abiding consciousness of God pushes itself to the front all the time.
If we are haunted by God, nothing else can get in, no cares, no tribulation, no anxieties. We see now why Our Lord so emphasized the sin of worry. How can we dare be so utterly unbelieving when God is round about us? To be haunted by God is to have an effective barricade against all the onslaughts of the enemy.
“His soul shall dwell at ease.” In tribulation, misunderstanding, slander, in the midst of all these things, if our life is hid with Christ in God, He will keep us at ease. We rob ourselves of the marvelous revelation of this abiding companionship of God. “God is our Refuge” – nothing can come through that shelter.
When our spirits, thoughts, words and deeds are filled with the consciousness of God, all else fades to the background. All the syndromes, habits and hauntings from days past melt into obscurity as our lives focus on the presence of God each day.
Yet so many of us dwell in ourselves and are trapped by old realities that no longer exist. Past hurts by parents and others we trusted conspire to doom our future as a mere repetition of long gone unhappiness and sorrow. Broken hearts from yesteryear can steal our heaven away from us and condemn us to endlessly reliving old pains or failures.
Let us today, break free of these long dead ghosts by living in the present moment with God as our guide. Let every thought, word and deed emanate from our love and trust for God. And, let each of us rise above all limitations placed on us by abiding in God’s spirit at all times. Then, let us walk in our garden each day lifted up by God’s love, grace and forgiveness.
In the spirit,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
This response form a friend
Great epilogue!
I think of how much wasted energy has been spent trying to recapture “times gone by” and perfecting past mistakes (setting them right by reliving them correctly in thought and mind)… “But that was yesterday, and yesterday’s gone”.
You’ve hit the nail on the head, in that now is the only reality that we have; and that with God’s help, there’s lots of love, joy, excitement and happiness still to come in both present and future.
Good work, my friend… hope to see you all again soon!