“And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.”~ Ezk. 1:12
How thankful I will always be for a dear Christian lady who helped me when I was a babe in Christ. I was troubled with my past, trying frantically to deal with it, but all to no avail. After I explained to her the regrets that lay behind me, she simply opened her Bible and had me read Philippians 3:13, “...forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.” This, she said, was the secret of Paul’s perennial success as a Christian and it would work for me also, she confidently affirmed.
That was well over sixty years ago, and I can give testimony to the fact that it really does work. I could never have made it this far had I tried to drag the ball-and-chain of my yesterdays along with me on my journey to Bunyan’s Celestial City.
There is no forging ahead without forgetting the past. May God help us to forget and to leave behind all of life’s failures, sins, heartaches, and shattered dreams. We must bury them daily and make sure to throw away the shovel, so that we cannot dig them up again.
We must decide, each day, whether we want history or future.
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