Days Gone By

“Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me.” (Job 29:2)

Why is it that we are so prone to living in the past? Why is it so easy for us to remain shackled to our failure and enamoured by our success at the cost of foregoing victory in the present?

It is a common theme even amongst the great examples of faith in the Bible. Job despaired of his life when calamity hit; Abraham followed his wife’s advice and turned to Hagar (Gen 16) and Elijah despaired of his life after the overpowering evidence of God’s power at Mount Carmel. (1Kings 19)

There is no easy answer to that, but God wants us to live in victorious faith in the present, knowing that “the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.” (Ps 100:5) We do well to remember the faithfulness of God in days gone by, knowing that God STILL preserves us today!

-A. N. Scharf