Dwelling on past failures or missed opportunities will not help your progress.
Thoughts of 'if only', and 'why did it happen' or 'things could have been
different' just keep you bound to an earthly level. Rise higher in your
thinking! God can turn everything to profit as you yield to His word today.
There are weights upon you that you need to release and lay at Jesus feet. You
cannot change the past, but your attitudes can determine the future. Paul says
from experience that he had to forget those things which were behind him and
press on Philip 3:13. He could have lived in the morbid thoughts of how many
believers he had killed and persecuted before he met Jesus. He could have
thought about all those who forsook him; the awful stonings; the shipwrecks; the
hunger and cold; the prison. So many dreaded things! But he knew that
the mature let all these things go and press
forward to the prize of the high calling v 14-15. As you look towards the sun
the shadows fall behind! let us look to Jesus the author and finisher of our
faith. He is trustworthy!
'I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead'. Philip 3:10-11
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