THE PAST IS...PAST?

NOVEMBER 25, 2012 - THE PAST IS...PAST?

Today is one of those days that your past meets up with your present, and you wonder how you ever got to be this old...or at least how all this time has passed so quickly.

I sat on the sofa with Baby Girl, and we began watching STAR WARS Episode III.  I tried to tell her who the characters were, and how they were related to Luke and Leia.  I began to count back how far it was since I was sitting in a theatre watching Episode IV.  I was in 5th grade.  Wow.

When you realize that it has been that long, and then how some films stand the test of time, and some do not...it makes you wonder whether anyone will remember the finer things of the 20th century.  Disco, the Muppet Show, and Pop Rocks.  I'm kidding, but there are some things that we hold on to from literature for decades that kids hate:  Wuthering Heights, the Catcher in the Rye, and even Moby Dick.  Why haven't we moved on from some of the past?

This morning in Sunday school, we were reading John 3:16-20.  Perhaps the things we try to hold on to are not always the worst for us, but the messages that we must carry forward.  Our pastor preached on Revelations and Doomsday Preppers today.  I used to think that "doomsday" meant the world coming to an end, but then I realized recently that the New Madrid Fault could be the "doomsday" that comes sooner than later.  If I had only a few minutes to pack and go, what book would I take in my "doomsday pack"?  At first I thought about pictures, or books to read.  Then I remembered.  The Bible.  It has more information, more stories, more lessons, and more history than any other book in my possession.  More importantly it has the hope of the risen Christ, the only comfort I would find in a world devoid of electronics, books, and tv.

Letting go of our human past is difficult, whether our childhood, or that of our own children...and what of the past-and the Bible of the past?  It has all the history you need in the future you find~today or tomorrow.