Yesterday
Richard Bradley
Job 8:8-9
As we've already demonstrated over the last couple of weeks, there's not much we can do about yesterday. Yesterday is gone, never to be repeated. Whatever good we've experienced we can only hope to experience again in the future. Whatever bad we've experienced we can only pray to avoid tomorrow. Yesterday's gone and is not coming back. The problem is that too many today are either still living in a negative past or remembering a positive past too fondly.
This isn't to say we can't learn from the past. We can and should but we just can't stay there. There are several key biblical passages whose central theme is ''yesterday'' and from these passages we learn several distinctive truths that we'll need both today and tomorrow.
I THINK I CAN A children's story tells of a little engine who looked at his impossible task of pulling a train up a steep hill and said, ''I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.'' Filled with determination, the little engine huffed and puffed and pulled up the hill. But another author wrote: ''He was almost there, when - CRASH! SMASH! BASH! He slid down and mashed into engine hash On the rocks below - which goes to show If the track is tough and the hill is rough THINKING you can ain't enough.''
Let's see what the Bible says about yesterday.
YESTERDAY TEACHES US ABOUT US
Job 8:9
9 For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.
Sometimes we feel we know a lot more about life than we really do. This is why we need God in our lives; so we won't lead others astray or be led astray ourselves. Job 8:9 reminds us that compared to God and eternity we were only born yesterday. We may have heads of gray hair and be possessed by what others consider to be a wealth of wisdom but we're really new born babes.
There is a shocking truth in verse 9. Our days on this earth are but a shadow. Know what this means? You're standing and conversing with an ...
Richard Bradley
Job 8:8-9
As we've already demonstrated over the last couple of weeks, there's not much we can do about yesterday. Yesterday is gone, never to be repeated. Whatever good we've experienced we can only hope to experience again in the future. Whatever bad we've experienced we can only pray to avoid tomorrow. Yesterday's gone and is not coming back. The problem is that too many today are either still living in a negative past or remembering a positive past too fondly.
This isn't to say we can't learn from the past. We can and should but we just can't stay there. There are several key biblical passages whose central theme is ''yesterday'' and from these passages we learn several distinctive truths that we'll need both today and tomorrow.
I THINK I CAN A children's story tells of a little engine who looked at his impossible task of pulling a train up a steep hill and said, ''I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.'' Filled with determination, the little engine huffed and puffed and pulled up the hill. But another author wrote: ''He was almost there, when - CRASH! SMASH! BASH! He slid down and mashed into engine hash On the rocks below - which goes to show If the track is tough and the hill is rough THINKING you can ain't enough.''
Let's see what the Bible says about yesterday.
YESTERDAY TEACHES US ABOUT US
Job 8:9
9 For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.
Sometimes we feel we know a lot more about life than we really do. This is why we need God in our lives; so we won't lead others astray or be led astray ourselves. Job 8:9 reminds us that compared to God and eternity we were only born yesterday. We may have heads of gray hair and be possessed by what others consider to be a wealth of wisdom but we're really new born babes.
There is a shocking truth in verse 9. Our days on this earth are but a shadow. Know what this means? You're standing and conversing with an ...
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