The Depth Of Small Things

Cities are often built on top of the rubble of older cities as they are pushed down and turned into platforms to be built upon.  They claim such for Chicago, which built on top of old Chicago after the fire, and Seattle also has a reputation for having a subterranean support system that is in itself an old city, New York has such- now those cities down there exist as remnants of a past that we can't reach- they are dangerous to explore, and every so often you will hear about someone who got injured while attempting to explore them.  But a mouse, a little creature, it can do down there and go as deep as it would like, with little threat from the surroundings, they aren't likely to cave in because of the mouse's carbon footprint.  Small things can have amazing depth, and so it is in our lives as well, we have past's which have been for the most part, buried and built upon; if we go back there to explore, they can, in some instances, cause danger, even cave-ins and ruin!  But if we only briefly, like a mouse passing over the timber of an ancient city, and lightly go there, the past can be a place where we learn and grow, from, as we build the new city of our present success.  God wants your life to be successful, He put a lot of care and planning into the enormous energy of your present life, and He wants you to be able to have a firm foundation, one which, if it must be explored, isn't allowed to become a place of abode, therein would be the real danger of actually living in the subterranean past and not experiencing the joyful light of the present.  Today it is easier for me to see the present light and be thankful for the fact that I have a past, to sometimes gently and lightly go back there to take a lesson from it, but not to live there among dangerous rotting timbers of time, how about you?  Let's pray for each other who participate in this experience of walking with God.