Time Tunnel - Thursday January 08, 2015
Do not say, "Why is it that the former days were better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this. Ecclesiastes 7:10
Last Labor Day I did not celebrate with family. I disappeared into a time tunnel. This may have happened to some of you when you decide to organize belongings from the past-photos, college papers, old journals, family history. It's a little dangerous, time-traveling like that.
That Monday I decided the time had come to sort through photos returned from our mothers and integrate them back into our boxes of family photos. It only took seven hours, trying to find where all the pictures fit in! I scanned hundreds and hundreds of photos-mostly vacations, birthdays, friends' visits, and holidays-bright, happy, beautiful. Thirty-five years from our first child to the present, plus grandchildren albums, I traveled through.
And I was very tempted to ask, "Why can't it be like then, Lord, when life was simpler, when children's problems were stitches and algebra?" Like Job in Job 29-"my children were around me"-or the blessing of Psalm 128:3: "Your children like olive plants around your table," I soaked in "the good old days." But the verse above reproved me.
Be thankful for the past. But live in the present. Be Here Now, the old hippie phrase I liked, is good instruction. Let's claim the blessing of Asher: ". . . as your days, so shall your strength be" (Deuteronomy 33:25) and God's promise in Isaiah 46:4-"Even to your old age, I shall be the same, and even to your graying years I shall bear you! I have done it, and I shall carry you; and I shall bear you, and I shall deliver you." Thank you, Lord-for the "good new days" too.
Submitted by:
Dotty Vanderhorst
Cornerstone Community Church
Overland Park, Kansas
One-Year Reading Plan:
Genesis 18:16-19:38
Matthew 6:25-7:14
Psalms 8:1-9
Proverbs 2:6-15
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