Luke 9:62
62 “Jesus replied, ‘No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the Kingdom of God.”
Philipians 3:13
13 “Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind me and straining toward what is ahead,” 14 “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
There’s only one thing that I’m doing in my life. I don’t count what I have done yesterday, and I’m not turning to what I have done to other people. I’m forgetting what is behind me, and I am pressing forward.
Don’t consume tomorrow by feeding yesterday... There are so many people who spend more time in what they have done in the past. The more they look back to what they have done, the more they perish. We are so surprised why your life is not progressing; not knowing that you are still living in the past. Paul said, ‘There’s only one thing that I am doing, I am forgetting what is behind me.’ Paul was a serial killer; he killed so many pastors; he killed so many bishops; he destroyed many churches; he even killed the arch-bishops when Jesus met him in the book of Acts Chapter 9. Look at this man; he didn’t count what he did but he said, ‘I am running forward where my crown is; because if I spend time in my past I will kill myself.’
How many people are counting what they have done? People kill themselves today because they look back to what they have done; and they conclude by saying they are useless. You start blaming God, and say why this happened to me? And you will see no reason to worship Him.
People will always remind you about your past; people start point fingers at you because they know what you did in the past. Every man and woman knows you; every boy and girl knows you; that’s okay! Don’t focuss in your past; don’t focuss to what people are telling you. Run forward, run forward... Don’t look back because there’s no life in the past. Why are you looking back? What will make you not to look back?
God said to Moses, “Tell my children to move on and stop complaining. Let them not look back to where they come from. They must not look at the Egyptians for I will deal with them.” God will deal with your situation. Don’t look back! Leave everything to God. Whatever you have done, don’t look back. If you want to rebuild your life, look forward – don’t look back.
Your failures today cannot determine your destination. Press on and don’t look back. Useless people in the Kingdom of God are those who look back. You will never forgive others if you focus in your past. Press on – press on – press on and don’t look back!
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