Thursday; January 18

Wouldn’t it be great to go back in time?  After all, things are in such a disarray in today’s society that it is awful appealing to long for the good old days.  How far back would be good … twenty years – maybe fifty years?  Sure, it be great to go back fifty years because everything would be better back then, right?  Yes, let’s go back to 1968:

  •         The year the USS Pueblo was captured by the North Koreans
  •         The year, that in the middle of the Viet Nam War, the My Lai Massacre occurred
  •         The year that a plane crashed in Texas killing all 85 people on board
  •         The year that a soccer stampede in Argentina killed 74 people
  •         The year that the Democratic Convention was interrupted by civil discord
  •         The year that a mining disaster killed 78 people in West Virginia
  •         The year that at least one U. S. plane was hijacked and forced to fly to Cuba
  •         And the year that Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated

While it is tempting to want to go back, we can’t … and even if we could, I am afraid that our nostalgia would quickly fall prey to reality.  Our world has always been in a shambles because of the presence of satan and evil.  I am continually reminded of the condition of man when I read, “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. The Lord said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.’” (Genesis 6:5-7) 
Rather than lamenting the present and embellishing the past, let’s make each day the best it can be.  We have been given a gift called “today”, let’s not allow it to be underappreciated or unused.
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