“Good old days?” This has been a question that has been asked over and over for centuries. The older one becomes, the more we look back and talk about “the good ole days.” Our children have reminded us so many times, “That was the olden days; things are different today.” The past seems to always look better looking back to it than it did when one was experiencing it because we tend to forget the challenges of the past and remember the good times. I’ve heard many times, “the older I get, the better I was when...” Been there? Part of looking back is to compare the amount of change we see from the past.
Change has taken place in every part of our lives and it seems like it’s been increasing at an exponential rate. Take any subject and notice what’s happened in recent years—environment, storms, earthquakes, tsunami’s, flooding, famine, fuel, wars, manufacturing, jobs lost to other countries, internet, business failures, housing foreclosures, medicine, healthcare, politics, corruption in business, politics, religious circles, and etc. This amount of change has been difficult to deal with since the majority of us dislike change.
We used to say that there were only two things for certain—death and taxes. Now I believe we need to add another and that is “change.” One business writer in recent years even wrote that if we are doing things today the same way that we did yesterday, we’ve just fallen one day behind. “Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”[1]
While attending a conference at The Ford Motor for suppliers, Mr. Tony Brown, V.P. of Global Purchasing stated, “If you think it’s bad now, just think. Twenty years from now you will look back and think of these days as “the good ole days.” Hard to believe, but most likely it will happen. What has happened to the “good ole days?” They are being recreated each day we live in a new direction and a new level.
We have an awesome responsibility to direct the things that we can control to make sure that change is always in a positive direction and leave a legacy of a better life for future generations. There are many things changing that we cannot control; and we are constantly adjusting to change. One has stated, “The things beyond myself, I leave to God.” Remember, change may be legal; legal does not make it right! There are changes that are in opposition to our belief system and God’s standard for us to live; therefore, we must not compromise. Every new day is another chance to become a new person. We are a sum-total of the “good old days; today will be included as a part of the sum-total of tomorrow. Therefore, we can start living tomorrow---today; what will it look like? What will the good old days look like as one looks back twenty years from now?
“There should be a consistency that runs through us all. For Jesus doesn't change — yesterday, today, tomorrow, he's always totally himself.” Heb 13:7b-8
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