Don't Look Back!

      Memories are great. They can bring us such joy, as we leaf through the pages of an old photo album, remembering happy times when we were kids, our first car, our wedding day, when our children were babies, our first house.  God gave us memories as a special gift, to help us count our blessings and recall His faithfulness to us throughout the years.
 
   We also remember the hard times, and this too is a gift, as we (hopefully) learn from our mistakes and endeavor to teach our children to avoid the mistakes we made.
 
   Yes, memories are wonderful, and a great blessing from God, but as with all God’s gifts, we must use our memories wisely, and with hearts of thankfulness, or they can become a curse.
 
   When a person becomes a Christian and lives under the will of the Holy Spirit, Scripture tells us we’ll experience wonderful fruit in our lives, including: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
 
   But at the same time, Satan, our adversary, is relentless in his efforts to pull us back into our old ways, to strip us, not only of our blessings, but of our very faith.  One way he does this is through our memories, once again corrupting what God made for good into a vile tool of the devil.
 
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