“This is what the Lord says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,”
Isaiah 49:8 NIV
Some of us look back because that was the "glory days" and life was good and right and God was moving then and so our focus and energy points to those days. Some of us look back and can't seem to get over "what happened" and we live in a state of unforgiveness and bitterness and talk about the event as if it happened yesterday!!
Either approach is not healthy for a life that still has breath. We should never live today in the past because then we don't get to really embrace what God has for us today!!
We liken it to our bonfire pit, the next day the ash may still be smoking but the fire is not blazing - if we were to go out there and sit by it like we did the night before and talk about what the fire used to be .... attempting to warm our hands by cold ash we are missing out on what is happening right now somewhere else and are wasting precious time! The fire is gone! Let's go! There's more to experience and live for BEFORE us not behind us.
Sure, take a quick , happy look backwards to remind yourself of His grace and goodness , but then strain forward to what is ahead!!!
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