How good are you presently at looking backward so you can better see forward?

We’re talking history here – so be advised if you tend to underrate the study of the historic past in school or in life generally. Undervaluing the study of history – ancient or modern – is a plague in most human cultures and often in higher educational systems.

Notice how our great God stresses the understanding of history in the heavens and on earth through the writing of King David:

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands. I spread out my hands to You; My soul longs for You like a thirsty land. Selah. 

Psalm 143:5-6

Note that God and His faithful servants—the prophets and later His true Church all existed in history. That history is, by the way, still being made by God’s true Church today. That includes you and me and all our scattered brethren!

However, some in or attached to the Body of Christ (another term for “God’s true Church”) have too long been gambling with inattentive blindness – or are functionally inattentive to the work that our Savior Jesus Christ has been and is doing through his specially chosen faithful few.

What’s the spiritual fix?

How can each of us correct whatever amount of inattentive, spiritual blindness exists in our lives so near the end of this age – putting us so close to the second coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?

The good news is that positive, corrective action is already at our fingertips:

Thus says the Lord: “Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.”

Jeremiah 6:16

PS:  That last sentence of verse 16 is a sad story for those who choose the wrong path. Please carefully disregard the tragically unwise example of the stubborn and foolish.

Ask our great God in your prayers today for eyes to see the old paths that mark the good way. God has the ointment to cure our personal spiritual blindness, but we must ask for it!