DG03 – Looking Back

We can spend a life time being stuck in looking backwards. The past is a reality that can not be changed, but we need to understand that progress requires us to advance. Change happens, and unless you move with it you will get left behind. Our present means to look straight ahead, connecting to the path that the Lord is setting before our feet. What God has for us, requires us to have the ability to look forward by faith, not behind at we have left to get to where we are.

Our lives that we have had, is where we have come from, to where we are currently, to where we are going. From time to time, I find myself visiting the past, but not camping where I should only be passing through. Learn from the past, and take the treasures that you have gained forward, knowing tomorrow has yet to come.

The problem lies in this, when stuck we leave all the opportunities behind, and miss out on what could have been, what could have worked, and what we could have become. Your and my purpose is defined by the Lord’s plan for our lives. Nowhere are we called backwards.

Prayer: Dear Lord, you understand the past in our lives, and how we can at times become so stuck, not able to see our way forward. Please give us the eyes to see the present, and a glimpse of what our future could be. Give us the ability to set our sails to your breath upon our lives, that we arrive at our destinations on time.

Verse: Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path. Proverbs 4:26 NLT