Looking Back

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Looking Back

Looking back at the “old house” from a perfect location high in the Big Ridge of Scott County, Virginia, one can almost hear its cries for redemption. For over a hundred years it has been a center of high activity. Children laughed and giggled at play in its upstairs nooks and crannies. Nights produced the sound of prayers of thanks followed by contented snoring. Sleep comes easy to a purified mind. The old house witnessed the turn of the century in its youth. The civil war left it standing. The great depression touched its occupants but not its structure. It was undaunted by the rise and fall of the economy, government calamities and the church’s spiritual decline. Now, Looking back to where it stands, wrapped in vines, empty and forgotten, one can not withhold a tear’s flow. Time, weather and abandonment have taken their toll on its once joy filled walls. Our life is similar in its run from birth to the crossing. Is there a God of love who offers contentious care and love so, unlike the old house, His children and bride weathers gracefully and ends in total renewal. Certainly, is the answer. He loves us with a centennial love. There is no profit in looking back at the “tent’s life” in sorrow if God has made it new. The old life certainly was in shambles but it has been replaced with newness of life and even God does not remember or look back on its dilapidated state. Why should we?

God’s Word to us: Jeremiah 31:3 “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” 

God loves you, He loves you with a love beyond your understanding or measurement. There here is no human love anything like divine love. He wants to forgive you. He wants to have a relationship with you.

1 John 4:16 “God is love.”  It doesn’t make any difference how badly your life’s history appears, He loves you. His watches over you. He paid a great price to restore us. Christ came to this earth to pay for our sins on a cross. We have a sure maintenance program chaired by the Holy Ghost.

Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” God made you important to Him. You cannot escape His knowledge of you. God knows who you are. He knows your name and everything about you. He cares for you.

Luke 12:7 “Indeed the very hairs of your head are numbered..”

Don’t look back at the old life with all it’s sins and faults. Press on toward the mark of the high calling. Know God, know peace. Amen 12/23/20 BLL

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