Let’s go back to the children of Israel. Exodus 15:1-21 recorded their song of praise after the Red Sea deliverance. Then they journeyed for three days. No water. They complained. The Lord again provided water.

They journeyed again. Exodus 16:2 says that the whole congregation complained. In verse 3 they looked back to the past. They forgot the part of their crying out for deliverance from the brutal Egyptian slavery. Instead they remembered the food they used to eat.

It says, “…we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full!…” Then the Lord brought out His provision for the present which lasted 40 years. Fresh bread in the form of manna, quail, and neither did their clothes and shoes wear out.

Looking back into our past is futile. We cannot change one thing. Our past is passed. Lot’s wife looked back and became a pillar of salt. Looking back distracts us from what the Lord wants to do for us and through us in the present. Jesus set His face like a flint. Isaiah 50:7. Luke 9:51.