Past Glories

Of what use are our Past Glories?

A woman had a beautiful silk dress. She wore it on festivals and weddings. One of the festivals she wanted to wear the dress and was searching her wardrobe. But she could not find the dress at all. She was so sad that she cried that day and did not celebrate. She first thought that her maid had stolen the dress. Then she thought that the dress went to the dry cleaners and he did not return it. After vagaries of thoughts she slowly forgot about the dress. Years rolled by. The woman became old. She could not walk properly. Her children had married and left her alone. Her husband had died. Her old maid was still there with her. One day they saw a colony of ants under her wardrobe and she asked her maid to fetch a carpenter to clean the wardrobe bottom, which was closed. When the carpenter came he found an old dry-cleaners' packet which had fallen from the behind. He reached out and took the packet and gave to the landlady. She opens it to find that it was her lost silk dress. The dress had become marred and torn. The colony of ants, fungi and pests had spoiled it fully.

The woman looked at the cloth and remembered her youth, when she had worn that dress. But alas, she had to throw this dress away, as it is of no use to anyone.

Our past glories are like this forgotten lost silk dress. Unless we renew us daily, periodically and grow in the LORD, our past glories shall become marred and we will become unworthy.

Story written when Jeremiah 13:1-7 verses were meditated.