A wise man observed: "The wheels of time have ratchets on them; they only move forward." Both the pleasures and pains of the past are gone; we stand on the threshold of the future. Omar Khayyam lamented:
The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on:
Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Yet there is also something joyful about those ratchets on the wheels of time. Our past failures are behind us and are buried in the sea of God's forgetfulness. We have a new standard. This seems to be the message of Zechariah 10:12.
Israel's sins had cost them the Promised Land and brought much sorrow. Heartbroken, Zechariah pleaded with a wayward people to return to their God. He promised that if they did, God would give rain for their thirsty crops, trample their enemies, strengthen their homes, return them to their land, and treat them as though they had never sinned.
Many Christians are deeply pained by the past. Hurts of long ago still haunt them, and they never forget their failures. These heavy burdens keep them from their best and rob them of much joy. Remember the ratchets on the wheels of time. The past can be totally committed to Christ. We can live in the gladness of today.
“And I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.”
Zechariah 10:12 KJV
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