Passage of the Day - May 20, 2011

Ecclesiastes 7:10

¹⁰Do not say, "Why is it that the former days were better than these?"
         For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.

Our memory of the past is limited compared to our complaining about the present.  It is often easy to think of the glory years of one’s life, one’s society, one’s country, or one’s world.  It is easy to think of how much better it was, but we have forgotten so much of the bad things.  When we are complaining, we have our complaining goggles on.  We can see everything that is up close perfectly, but we can only see the good in the past.  The past, in reality, was rife with its own trouble.  There is no era that was any less evil than any other.  The world was filled with evil sinners, oppression, and war in the 1500’s, the 1950’s, and today.  A wise person would never make such a foolish comment.

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