Side Effects of Nostalgia
“_____________ will never be as Good as is was”
ECC 7:10 Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.
PHIL 3:13-15 one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let those of us who are mature think this way
3 Dangerous Side Effects of Nostalgia
Nostalgia Distorts our Perception of the Past.
Exodus 16:3 “If only the LORD had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”
Nostalgia Traps us in Comfort
John 21: 1-3 Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Galilee.[a] It happened this way: 2 Simon Peter, Thomas (also known as Didymus[b]), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. 3 “I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
Nostalgia Prevents us from Moving Forward
ECC 7:10 Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions.
PHIL 3:13-15 one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let those of us who are mature think this way
We OVERCOME Nostalgias Effects with the Truth
Isaiah 43:18-19 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."
