No Looking Back

Greetings to all, on this Saturday, let us put behind us all the regrets and failures from this past week and focus on the fact that we have conquered and survived another week. Amen

We may have stumbled a little or a lot this past week, but because we cannot do anything about what happened this past week or in our day-to-day life, we don't have to worry or try to figure everything out. We must trust and believe that the Lord is leading and guiding us.

There's going to come a time in life when we look back and realize that we have worried about things that we couldn't have done anything about.

Luke 12:25-26 (NLT2)

25 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?

26 And if worry can't accomplish a little thing like that, what's the use of worrying over bigger things?

Philippians 3:12-16 (NLT2)

12 I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.

13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,

14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

15 Let all who are spiritually mature agree on these things. If you disagree on some point, I believe God will make it plain to you.

16 But we must hold on to the progress we have already made.

Lesson: Paul was saying that to reach the goal of knowing Christ, being like Christ, and being all that Christ had for him, took all his energy, and he wasn't going to let anything stop him.

We, too, must not let anything stop us. We must stop worrying or allowing our negative past to affect us and prevent us from moving forward by looking back on what would have, could have, or should have been.