Looking overly long in the rearview mirror, we only gain an oncoming disaster in our front windshield! Our best days as Christians are always ahead. Jesus has promised to return and take us home to be with God! What better future could there be? So let’s not get distracted by a nostalgic glorification of the past and a grumpy cynicism about our future. We can thank God for his past blessings, but let’s not waste the present moment with pessimism. Let’s find joy each day, thank God for his blessings in the present, and commit to redeeming our time, trusting that the same God who raised Jesus from the dead also holds our future in his hands. “Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions” Ecclesiastes 7:10.
February 23
February 23, 2025
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of
