The past was not better; God is here with me today. When I long for the things of the past, I need to turn and take what God is handing to me today.
God has brought me into eternal life; that has changed my relationship with temporal things. I can still appreciate things of my past, but I am no longer anchored to them. Because I am no longer anchored to them, my emotions are not held captive by them.
There may be gladness or sorrow over remembrances of relationships, circumstances, or things, but that gladness or sorrow is now handled by an eternal joy and an eternal peace. How can I be overcome by dead things when I am all wrapped up in life?
Nostalgia pulls hard upon my soul but is met by all things made brand new, even a brand new way of engaging my past: gratitude and thanksgiving. I do not long for things of my past when I am actively grateful for them; they now have their proper place by the ordering of eternal life: they reside in thanksgiving, and I am satisfied.
Those things that belong to eternal life have not gone away though there might be a pause in my experience of them. And the things that were not eternal, the light of life everlasting is cast upon them, and I see that they were hollow, and never did fulfil.
God has never shortchanged me; He has ministered to me in such a way that even my emotions may be glorious if I will have it. And that is true today.
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