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| Salvador Dalí - Muchacha en la ventana (Woman at the window) |
Have you ever tried to walk backwards or go backwards down an escalator? It could be fun, even comical, awkward for sure, and very hard to do. We were not made to walk that way for a long period of time. Our head, feet, and body were made to walk into the future, not in reverse.
I recently was asked a question that is very common for people that have had an amazing experience with God. “How can I go back to feel the way I felt when I had ‘that experience’?” After giving a simple answer to a new believer in Christ, I realized how easy it is for us to put on a pedestal a moment, a feeling, or ‘that experience’ that marked our life. We consider some of our moments with God irreplaceable, and instead of making a memorial, like Joshua did with the people of Israel (Joshua 4:4-7), we try to keep them alive by creating templates or exact replicas in order to go back and find the same feelings and emotions that made them powerful at one point in our lives. We want so much to capture the moment, that we do whatever we can to immortalize them. However, God didn’t intend for you and I to create pedestals out of our past encounters with the divine. He wants us to remember the moment, not create a spiritual time machine just so we can go back looking for ‘that experience.’ It’s simple; God has something new for us every single day, so let's walk forward!
“The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 (ESV)
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