A basic fact exists in life: It is physically impossible to look forward and backward at the same time. It cannot be done. A person can see one direction or the other, but the eyes can’t take in both at once.
The same fact applies to one’s inner vision. When you spend time focusing on the past, living it over and over again with guilt, regret, and “if only,” you expend all your energy there. The past becomes your home, your dwelling place. You live there—in the past.
The result resembles being sucked down into an eddy or a whirlpool. As you spin in circles, its force renders you powerless and immobile with no chance or hope of ever getting out and moving forward.
While letting go of one’s past may seem easier said than
done, hanging on to it weighs a person down in the most literal sense. The past
becomes a heavy burden to carry, with no real payoffs--unless
you’ve made qualifying for martyrdom your goal. God’s plan and desire for us
emphasizes living in the present. Setting up residence in the past serves no
purpose.
Living in the present, ever moving forward, occupies a place of importance in order to live a viable, productive, complete, and satisfying life. How do I know? I come from a place of experience. My Creator taught me this as a first lesson.
Valuable principles like these establish a foundation, the base for other spiritual building blocks in a person’s life. In my opinion, this one holds a place of great benefit and worth.
But I focus on this one thing:
Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.
Philippians
3:13 nlt
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