Don’t Look Back!

Most of us know the story of how God powerfully delivered the Israelites from their Egyptian oppressors.  With the Egyptians hot on their heals, He miraculously brought them through the Red Sea.  He then took them by the hand on the way to a beautiful place he had meticulously prepared for them.  However, in order to get to that beautiful Promised Land, they had to first go through the wilderness.  As they traveled through that dry, hot, miserable place they began thinking about Egypt.  They thought about the shelter they had, the meat they ate and all the “comforts” they enjoyed back in Egypt, which they lacked in the wilderness.  As a result, they did the unthinkable.  They cried out and voiced their desire to go back!

When thinking about the past, old relationships that didn’t work, we tend to sometimes romanticize them, remembering only the good.  We forget why it didn’t work.  (more…)