together to the final, eternal feast.” Memory not only has a backward look; it has a forward look. God wants us to remember not only what He has done in Christ but what He will continue to do. One of the amazing, refreshing things about the biblical view of memory and the past is that we also remember the future! That’s radical. If you have a future, it changes the way you think about your past, doesn’t it? God says, “I know the plans I have for you, plans for good and not for evil, to give you a
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