Looking Back


Have you ever tried to drive your car down the road by looking in the rear-view mirror? If so, you probably didn’t get too far very fast. You would most likely never try to go 30, 45, or 60 miles an hour while using only the rear-view mirror to guide your way. It would be ridiculous and dangerous to you and to those around you.

This is however the way some people seem to navigate through life. They are always looking back at what happened in their past, but fail to look ahead to see that the best is in front of them, not in the past. It doesn’t matter if you have had a wonderful past or one filled with pain and suffering, the principle is still the same, we don’t make much progress when we are looking back. 

For some, the rear-view mirror is wishing for what is gone in a relationship, others might look back at a mistake made and wish it could be erased and yet another might look back with a “what if” mentality. It really doesn’t matter what you might be looking back at, the result is still the same. You are not able to enjoy the present nor look forward to the future. 

While some keep looking backwards in fear, dread or questioning, others keep hanging on to the past because they are afraid to give up the familiar, the known, the comfortable even if it was an awful experience.

God has a life prepared for us that is full of joy, peace, and abundance. Will you chose to participate in that life or will you continue to look in the rear view mirror of life missing what is waiting for you just ahead?

Philippians 3:13-14 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

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