Good Old Days

A question has been stirring in me of late that I want to share with you. Perhaps we will start an open discussion about it through the information highway.

By the way if you have not got on the 50th Anniversary page, YOU NEED TO! There is some great history for us to learn and some great people to meet that have laid a beautiful foundation all of us that are currently attending New Life Community Church should be grateful for. If you don’t know how to get there, you can go to our church website – www.newlifecc.us and just click the “50th Anniversary” link.

Here’s my question – “Why do we say ‘those were the good old days’ when speaking of the past?”

I have some great memories of good days in the past but I always get the impression that people that tend to use the “good old days” language would rather live in those good old days.

God is the same yesterday, today and forever so to him every day is good! He chose to create today and I am glad that he did. I hope he chooses to create tomorrow as well. We had a phenomenal altar time both Sunday AM and PM this last week, but no matter how good it was to see people Baptized in the Holy Spirit like Sunday PM or set free and on to a new journey with Jesus like Sunday AM, I want more of HIM. “Good old days” implies to me that you want the forward moving God of the universe to stop time and reverse all that has happened so you can bask in whatever experience you may have had back then in “the good old days.”

If I were to bask in what God did during those 3 Sunday PM services we entitled “Remove the Noise” I could have missed the miraculous moment of God’s financial provision for Shami and me a few weeks back when we stepped out in faith trusting that He provides ALL things for us and not the green colored paper that says “In God we trust.” If I was to concentrate on that moment I could have missed the opportunity to hear my daughter, Bayley say “Yes” to getting baptized this Sunday, April 25th during the AM service with 4-5 other people!!

I love what good that God has done through the 36 years of my life, and through the 50 years of our church but God has greater things planned for me, for New Life Community Church and FOR YOU!

When the exiled Jews returned and began to build the new temple, it was smaller than before and some wept because of that fact but the prophet Haggai spoke for God regarding that new temple and said in Haggai 2:9 – “The future glory of this Temple will be greater than its past glory,” Those that were weeping for the past “Good old days” did not know that the Son of God himself would walk into the new temple one day.

What if the disciples lived after Jesus’ death and resurrection thinking, “remember the good old days when Jesus was with us?”
But they did not. Jesus basically said in John 14:12 that these days may be good but you have greater days ahead!! “

“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father."

We MUST REMEMBER our days from years gone by, but the truth still remains…they have gone by! If you are not sure yet, I love all of New Life Community Church’s history, every piece of it! Without it we would not be Loving God with all we have and Loving People no matter what TOGETHER!! We’ve needed the past to get to the present so we can keep going on towards are greater days!

As I close this email please remember the amazing words of the song “God of this city.”

For greater things have yet to come
And greater things are still to be done
In this city
Greater things have yet to come
And greater things are still to be done here

May God give you a greater day today than the one you had yesterday…whether it was Good day or a Bad one! I love you all!

In HIM,
Pastor David