Processing the prize
When you think about it, the past makes us who we are.
Where we are today is a reflection of how we've been living our life.
Elizabeths favorite life verse: Philippians 3:13,14 " brethren, I do not count myself to have arrived but this one thing i am doing, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching for those things which are ahead. I press for the goal for the prize of the upper call of God in Christ Jesus. ( this is very awesome. Memorize it!).
When we keep looking back. We can't move forward. We are hindering ourselves when we keepin looking on the past.
3 step program
1. Past- forgetting what lies behind us.
2. Present- reaching forward to what IS ahead of is.
3. Pressing for the prize in how we will live present?
Make sure your running in the right race.
The person who looks backward will stumble.
1. How Paul tells us to forget the past
Forget the past- step 1- if we are going to think on what's true and real.
When Paul says he forgets what lies behind, it's active and it's obliteration.
It's a constant decision to say " no. I'm not going to think about that. " ( I do this constantly for a week now. Sifting through my thought and clean them out. This Is no easy task but very necessary. )
2. God is calling us to reach forward.
We are called to an active life of pursuing God with all our heart and mind.
3. Remember to press on.
If it's something that should be on your prayer list every day, that when I think this thing , I will not think this thing.
Wisdom usually comes from failure.
But learn it, log it, and leave it.
Paul is not only talking about forgetting the bad, but forgetting the good.
We're called by God to keep achieving and keep accomplishing.
A forward moving Christian
- they know where they are going
- they have a sence of Gods call on their lives
- they undertand the purpose of their lives
- they focus on God and God given goals
- they choose wisely from among their options.
Do you know what it take to reach for the prize?
It takes all your spiritual energy, mental energy, emotional energy, and physical energy.
We can't block everything out, but we can focus on the grace of God.
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