It recalls our failures as well as successes. And, those failures have a way of limiting our present and our future. Judging from the responses I got to what I said about that last week, a number of you know what I mean. Until you and I can set aside our pasts, be free of them, they have power over us and keep us from living into new lives. But most of all, memory can constrain our vision.
Remembrance can limit our ability to conceive of anything new.
So they settled in, coping, making life as comfortable as possible. Do that long enough and captivity becomes a comfortable alternative. Let's admit it, we can get used to those golden handcuffs. It doesn't take long to convince ourselves that we cannot really live without them. This is what was taking place in Babylon.