The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted.” 
Exodus 16:3 HCSB 

God bless the brave men and women who teach driving skills to young adults. They truly deserve medals for their valiant efforts, mostly because they save parents from having to sit in the passenger seat, fearfully pumping an imaginary brake with one foot. Many a driving teacher has admonished a new driver from constantly looking backward, “Don’t keep looking back. You’re not going that way.” 

Isn’t that true of life as well? When we constantly look back, longing for something or somebody or the life we used to have, we are deluding ourselves. We can’t live in the past. We can’t live in the future either. The only time allotted to us in this life is the moment we are living in right now. 

FAITH CHECK
The Israelites, though miraculously released from 430 years of captivity, actually preferred going back to life in captivity as slaves of Egypt because they were afraid that the God who parted the seas for them wouldn’t provide food for their growling stomachs. They didn’t appreciate what they had in the moment. Sure, freedom looked like a desert, but God was with them in that desert. And God is with you wherever you are, wherever you were, and where you are going. 

 

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