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Straight Ahead
Colin Luther Powell, the American statesman and retired four-star general, once made the following statement:
“Always focus on the front windshield and not the rearview mirror.”
While this may be sound advice for driving a vehicle or a good metaphor for getting along in the world, reading this quote reminded me of something the Apostle Paul said in regard to our Christian life as well. “This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13-14). Paul had a very checkered past which he had judged and left behind. Now he had Christ as his object and heaven as his goal. There was no looking back or turning back. He was heeding the words of Solomon, who wrote, “Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee” (Proverbs 4:25).
Maybe there are things that have not been right in your near or distant past. Don’t let them spoil your joy in the Lord today. Judge them and press on in the path of faith. Look straight ahead and follow Christ, our one great object.
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