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A Daily Devotional
About a treasure of the past….
Job 29:2 "How I long for the months
gone by, for the days when God watched over me, 3 when his lamp shone upon my
head and by his light I walked through darkness! 4 Oh, for the days when I was
in my prime, when God's intimate friendship blessed my house, 5 when the
Almighty was still with me and my children were around me, 6 when my path was
drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil. (NIV)
Some persons have a past
they desperately want to forget. In the past of many people there is trauma,
tragedy, pain, and suffering so profound every waking moment is spent running
away. However, the ashes of your past can be used to make the building blocks of
your present and future. Our God is a mighty and awesome God. Our memories of a
hurtful past can be used to glorify God. In ways mysterious, we can turn the
bitterness and ashes of the past into a labor of love for God. However, we must
remember God's healing love overflows in our heart at all times. Because God's
healing love fills our present, we can build upon our past. With Christ walking
beside us, we can walk back into our past and find healing. Impossibilities for
us are no problem at all for God. If we desire to be a true child of God, a past
littered with mistakes, pain, and suffering can be turned into a treasure of
wisdom, compassion, and understanding. Because God loves us so much, we can turn
poverty-stricken yesterdays into an incredibly rich today and tomorrow.
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