Philippians 3:13-14 "Brothers, 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, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."If there is one thing we need to do - it's to forget the past. Forgetting our own mistakes is top of the list of what to forget. Taking our past into the future will guarantee that we will not reach our goal. It's like wearing a weight around our neck. We would want others to forget our past, but then we don't forget it ourselves.
We need to forget our past successes. If we find something that works, we will continue to try and replicate that rather than relying on Holy Spirit to follow what He would have us to do. We develop a pattern and a crutch when we don't let go of past successes.
The third thing we need to forget in order to achieve our future is to forget the sins and actions of others. We often see people as being frozen in time and that they have not and cannot change. We see ourselves as changing, but don't envision that others could change. We need to release them because holding on to them keeps you held back.
Yesterday is over. It ended last night. Today is the only day you have and what you deposit into it today will cause you to reap the reward of it tomorrow. Regrets will always cause you to look back and go back. Worry will cause you to look around you and not move. Faith causes you to look up and move forward.
"Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. See, I am going a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wilderness." Isaiah 43:18-19
