Philippians 3:13-14 13Brothers, 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, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Today as I was reading my devo's a comment that the writer made hit me right between the eyes, "How different our past would be if we could relive it knowing what we know now." Let that sink in for just a minute. I know looking back at my past there are so many times that I wish I could take back something I said, or something I did or a situation I put myself into. I so wish I could go back to high school and live for Christ in order to tell everyone the good news of the gospel. But reality then sits in and I know that I cannot go back. As Pumba from Lion King says, "You got to get your behind out of the past or I mean you gotta put your past behind you." I know I cannot change my past, but as the verse above refers I sure can learn from it and then press on to do something about my future. So often we allow our past to dictate our future and that is sad. We cannot do one thing about the past, we cannot change it, we cannot relive it and thus we can only learn from it. My prayer is that the mistakes that I have made in the past I will not make again, the lessons that I have learned will help to shape the lessons of the future. My prayer is that all of that I will use to help me strain toward what is ahead. That I would be able to take hold of Christ and allow Him to guide my future and that someday I will obtain the prize that awaits.
Father help me to see my past as just that the past, may I have learned from it and may I strain forward through Christ so that I may honor and glorify you.
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