Tonight is the night to turn your clocks back. I heard a radio announcer last night talking about turning the clocks back, and it got my mind thinking. How many time do we consciously or unconsciously want to live in the past, sort of 'turn our clocks back' living. Most of us have times in our lives where the memories are the fondest. Then we are awakened by the reality that nothing stays the same, and sometimes we grieve that fact. The truth is that if we are a Christian, the future is always brighter than the past, no matter how good the past looks. The apostle Paul said, 'forgetting what is behind and straining towards what is ahead I press on towards the prize'! The writer of Proverbs said, 'the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that grows brighter till the full day.'! It can be tempting to fantasize about our 'golden days' whatever they may be, but God's got something far better in mind for us.
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