Do you ever find yourself unable to make a move in any direction? I know that I do, that I have, that I probably will again. But I don't want to be stuck that way by facing in the wrong direction.
No One Can Make Any Forward Progress by Looking Back all of the Time
If you walk, or attempt to walk, forward while your attention is toward where you were, rather than where you are headed,
You will encounter more obstacles by not noticing them,
Which you would have been able to to had your attention been forward rather than backward.
Second-guessing and dwelling in yesterday is something not advised by Scripture.
Ecclesiastes 7:10 contains this command: Say not, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Yes, we can learn from our mistakes; we have to learn from them, not ignore them. But Paul wrote in Philippians 3:12-16: Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.
We are to forget both the good and the bad and the ugly, not make our home there.
We can't go forward unless we are facing in that direction.
Yes, sometimes--perhaps often--we have to face up to bad choices we made--choices we may not have seen the consequences of--but once we have repented and received forgiveness, we must go on from there.
At a class on organization, one point clearly made was that we need to plan ahead. Set goals. No one can plan ahead of they insist on looking back, wallowing in regrets, etc. God calls us to learn from our mistakes--even from our sins--and move on from them--forward.
Sometimes forward will mean drawing up a variety of plans, depending on how God has things worked out for us.
Sometimes choices in the past will cancel out options, at least for a while. So? God is still and always sovereign in that also. His will for his children will never be thwarted.
Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Romans 8:26-28: Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
No One Can Make Any Forward Progress by Looking Back all of the Time
If you walk, or attempt to walk, forward while your attention is toward where you were, rather than where you are headed,
You will encounter more obstacles by not noticing them,
Which you would have been able to to had your attention been forward rather than backward.
Second-guessing and dwelling in yesterday is something not advised by Scripture.
Ecclesiastes 7:10 contains this command: Say not, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Yes, we can learn from our mistakes; we have to learn from them, not ignore them. But Paul wrote in Philippians 3:12-16: Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.
We are to forget both the good and the bad and the ugly, not make our home there.
We can't go forward unless we are facing in that direction.
Yes, sometimes--perhaps often--we have to face up to bad choices we made--choices we may not have seen the consequences of--but once we have repented and received forgiveness, we must go on from there.
At a class on organization, one point clearly made was that we need to plan ahead. Set goals. No one can plan ahead of they insist on looking back, wallowing in regrets, etc. God calls us to learn from our mistakes--even from our sins--and move on from them--forward.
Sometimes forward will mean drawing up a variety of plans, depending on how God has things worked out for us.
Sometimes choices in the past will cancel out options, at least for a while. So? God is still and always sovereign in that also. His will for his children will never be thwarted.
Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Romans 8:26-28: Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
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