THE GOOD OLD DAYS

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.

Ecclesiastes 7:10

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Those were the good old days.

You may have heard this statement made before, typically as people reminisce about the past and the way things used to be. The implication is that things were better then than they are in the present.

Older generations seem to make a habit of complaining about the way things are. I hear it all the time and have even been guilty of thinking that way myself from time to time. You may hear people say things like “I just don’t know about this generation” or “That wouldn’t have happened when I was growing up” or “When I was a kid (following this with words meant to mean they were better than kids today”.

All this leads people to often yearn for the way things used to me, to want to go back in time to days they believe was better.

But were the good old days really any better? If we’re honest with ourselves and we read the scripture passage from today, I think the answer, our emotions set aside, would be no.

Look at today’s verse from Ecclesiastes, Chapter 7:

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions. (v10)

God’s word tells us that it’s not wise to even ponder whether the old days were better than the present. For if we’re really truthful, every generation has been flawed in some way. There have been no good old days that were worth going back to and in our looking back, we fail to move forward to what the Lord has for us to do. Instead of complaining about the way things are, the Lord expects us to get to work in helping people of our present day to find their way to salvation through Jesus. Remember His Great Commission? He told us to Go and Make disciples, Baptizing and Teaching them. These were action words that leave us no time to think about the way things used to be in our lives. Rather, it’s about making today and tomorrow and every other day we’re given to live blessed in the eyes of the Lord who desires for more and more people to seal their eternal life by receiving and following Christ, the One who is the Way and the Truth and the Life.

In the end translation, the good old days were just as bad as today because sin was just as present and manifested itself in people committing wickedness. It has happened in every generation since the fall of man in Eden’s garden. Christians are not to be people who look back but rather people who are always looking forward, looking forward to carrying out what the Lord calls for them to do today while eagerly anticipating the coming day when Jesus returns and takes them to be with Him into a new creation where they will finally be liberated from all the illness and sorrow and pain and sin this life brings, to a place where no one will ever long for the way things were.   

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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