Looking back once in a while could be fun. It makes you remember and still enjoy the memories of the past. At times, the thought of the past brings happiness and pain also to us. But looking at the past and living in it is not good and it is very dangerous. If you want to move forward in life, don’t live it. Instead learn from it and move on.
Any athlete who wants to win a race must be focused and train very hard for it. If he won the same race last year and he thinks his past record will speak for him, he may lose the race. Some people wish that their present life is as good as their past. They long for the past (good times) to come back. They speak like the Israelites when they were brought out of Egypt. The Israelites wished for the food, life and environment they had in Egypt than the food and process God was taking them through.
Genesis 19: 15-26 says:
15 With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”16 When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. 17 As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” 18 But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please! 19 Your[c] servant has found favor in your[d] eyes, and you[e] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. 20 Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.” 21 He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. 22 But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.). 23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Luke 9:61-62 (NIV) says: 61 Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.”62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
Anyone who looks back is not fit for the kingdom of God. This is profound we want to run the race set before us. We are all running different races but aiming at the same prize. If it needs us to repent of something we did in the past. We should repent and move on. It is time to let go and live your life. Stop allowing the past to rob you of your destiny, peace, happiness and so on. The past is important in our history but don’t let it dictate your life and future. Instead press on to that vision, goal and career.
Phil 3: 12 says, “12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind ( The Past) and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
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