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Why the past is important…

Sunday 14 October, 2007 · Posted by Garry Dibley

By the time most of you will read this, the 3rd term holidays will be finishing up and 4th term will be upon us. Life is so busy that we often miss what is happening today because we are thinking about tomorrow and we have no time to think about what has gone past. The year is going fast and we don’t have time to look back at it.

Many people look to the future and as Christians the future is bright. It is even better than bright, it is an assured salvation, the promise of a new creation that will not spoil or fade like what happens on earth.

But there is a danger in only looking to the future. If we forget the past, we might forget where that future comes from. If we look back, we will find the plan of God to build his kingdom. We now find ourselves in this plan! We are in the kingdom of God with all the saints down the years.  Think of all your favourite characters from the bible or the early Christian fathers, martyrs, the reformers, missionaries, translators, hymn writers, preachers etc. We have now been included in God’s plan with all these and more.

As we look back, we can see how as we come into this last term that God has continued to be faithful to his promises…as if we could ever have doubted!
While we often feel nothing is happening by looking back, it confirms that God has not stopped working. Our time is not God’s time. Let’s rejoice in the fact that God has called us into his family and remember what the apostle Peter said in 2 Peter 3:8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

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