We can look back with thankfulness to past times of blessing from the Lord, and we are to “consider how great things He hath done for you,” and to “forget not all His benefits,” but yesterday’s blessings and yesterday’s fellowship will not suffice for today. Like Israel’s manna in the wilderness, our fellowship and our walk with the Lord must be maintained daily. “They gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating,” and God instructed them to “let no man leave of it till the [next] morning.” Just as our physical self must be maintained by constant nourishment, so must our spiritual self. We need to be constantly “forgetting those things which are behind,” not only our sins and failures, but also the spiritual successes and attainments, and to be “reaching forth unto those things which are before,” to “press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,” “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith,” knowing that “as thy days, so shall thy strength be.”
Forgetting our sins and failures,
That which was done yesterday,
Longing for new heights in our Lord
In all that we do and say.
1 Sam. 12:24; Psa. 103:2; Ex. 16:21,19; Heb. 12:2; Deut. 33:25.