Of The Past

Do not remember the former things,
Nor carefully consider things of the past.
-- Isaiah 43:18

Taken out of context, this verse might be telling us to forget the entire Bible! That would of course mean forgetting the verse itself which comes to us from Isaiah, one of God's prophets in the Bible. People will at times fantasize about time travel, and Isaiah gives us an opportunity to work on that with prophecies of his 'now', of his near future but still way back in time for us, and of the distant future we have not seen yet more than 2,700 years down the line. The new thing God promised began with the birth of Christ about 700 years from Isaiah's time, but Jesus preached the old scriptures frequently - obviously not forgetting the things of the past. Therefore, we study the Old Testament as well, and look ahead to that time when we are to not remember the things of the past. Does that mean the Bible too? It may well be, but only because then the Word of God, Jesus the Christ, will be right there with us.

To God be the glory, forever and ever, amen!

Bucky