The Good Old Days are Ahead!

One of the strategies demons use to discourage  people during times of crisis is to over romanticize the past, amplify the present crisis and paint a picture of a bleak future. For instance, just a few days after God had delivered Israel by drowning pharaoh and his chariots , they murmured against God saying  “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death”-Exodus 16:3. But this statement was a lie sold them by the devil. First of, they were slaves in Egypt and neither ate well nor enough. Secondly, God was able to provide for them and indeed He provided manna. Their situation should teach us a lesson. Before coming to God we were slaves to our flesh and though the devil may tell us that those were the good old days we should remember he is a liar. As to whatever crisis you may be going through the thing to do is to remember David’s eyewitness testimony in Psalm 37:25 “I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread”.