Have you ever traveled back to a place you remembered as a child? Things just don't look the same. The gigantic rock is a small bolder, the mountain only a hill, and the large house with the big back yard is a small bungalow with a yard the size of a Volkswagen bus.
When the pressure builds in our lives and things do not go as we envisioned, we tend to look backwards. Our old haunts beckon to us. Old habits don't seem all that bad. We tell ourselves, "maybe going backward is not such a bad idea after all."
But old traps are tighter the second time. Chains form much more quickly around our spirits, and we find ourselves drowning in the same cesspool from which we were gladly set free.
Peter tells us "Be sober and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:13).
Call out to God, he will again deliver you. It may be more difficult this time, but it is well worth the effort. He will reveal himself faithful to you. "As obedient children not conforminig yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct" (1 Peter 1:14).
