Sometimes you finally decide to move on from a car because it keeps breaking and warning lights are on and things are falling off, and so you buy a new car, and the second something goes wrong, you think back to how great your old car was and how it never gave you any problems. That's essentially what the Israelites are doing now that they've left Egypt behind -- they're thinking about how great it was back in Egypt.
It's so easy to forget the hard things we've been through. We look back and think about how green the grass was, despite the fact that while we were in the middle of it, the grass was green because it was raining all the time, and we were struggling to keep our heads above water. But we move forward, and when we meet new opposition, we look back and think about how great it was.
Scripture reminds us to keep looking forward -- when we fix our eyes on the future God has in store for us, then we aren't obsessing over what is in the past. We're growing into discipleship, letting God work on us.
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