{"id":4475,"date":"2026-05-05T02:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T02:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:50:13","slug":"glorified-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/glorified-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Glorified Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Tuesday, May 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glorified Past <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, \u201cWhat is it?\u201d For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, \u201cIt is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat. <strong>Exodus 16:15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, if we\u2019re honest, all we want to do is go back. Because our present seems so hard, it\u2019s only natural that we shift to a time where it wasn\u2019t hard, and often that is looking back. But what we remember isn\u2019t always where we really came from it\u2019s a version of it, a filtered version, a softened version. There\u2019s a book called The Fractured Republic, and the author makes the point that people are often \u201cblinded by nostalgia.\u201d He\u2019s talking about politics, saying people on different sides all long for some version of the past \u201cIf only we could get back to this time\u201d or \u201cIf only we could return to that era.\u201d But his point is bigger than politics, it\u2019s human nature.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the danger of delusion. It doesn\u2019t just distort your past, it distorts your perspective. Because now you\u2019re not just remembering wrong, you\u2019re desiring wrong. You start craving what God already brought you out of. You start missing what once broke you. And before you know it, you\u2019re ready to go back to something God delivered you from, not because it was better, but because it was familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I encourage you to see your situation as it is. Nostalgia can become deception when it rewrites reality. Don\u2019t let a hard present make you rewrite a broken past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Faithful God, thank You for Your patience with me. When I begin to use the eyes in the flesh, I miss out on what you have done in the Spirit. I pray that my heart will find rest in the truth that You are always faithful. Help me to embrace Your fresh start today and extend that mercy to myself and others. Amen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, May 5 Glorified Past When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, \u201cWhat is it?\u201d For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, \u201cIt is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat. Exodus 16:15 Sometimes, if we\u2019re honest, all we want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4482,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions\/4482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}