sheshisown
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I want to learn to remain grateful for the past good works of God, and yet know I how not lean on old glories nor seek to relive it. How did Paul put it?
In Phil 3:12-14 NKJV "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
I like to think of the past as if it were a dead horse along my path. I cannot do anything about it, it will not just disappear, and some of the consequences of my "ride" in that season still are remembered in my ways. Some things I grew accustomed to are just "stinking" no good for me to even reminisce about now; like a carcass ready to rot all my possible future rides.
That horse will never run again, it is big and dead, and no life is filling it, and no matter how hard I kick it~ it aint never gonna move an inch. Yet the beauty of this lifeless horse' immensity, is that it is also a powerful reminder not to create another one just like it. So I step around it, taking in its bones, seeing its decay, and breathing in and out~ being alive~being in Jesus~ a "new creation" without it.
In our time continuum we live within a moment that was our future just before it slid into our past. Each instance of our existence contains decision, and brevity, and hopefully faith, in a “possible†future with our surmountable past abundantly supplying much needed prudence.
May we be pleased in this instant to be hidden within the hand of our Master, Whose glory moves in every sphere, Whose power lasts, and Whose dominion will ever reign. Who lives inside eternal globes of timeless life, Who will make us like Him, one day… :infinity:
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In Phil 3:12-14 NKJV "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
I like to think of the past as if it were a dead horse along my path. I cannot do anything about it, it will not just disappear, and some of the consequences of my "ride" in that season still are remembered in my ways. Some things I grew accustomed to are just "stinking" no good for me to even reminisce about now; like a carcass ready to rot all my possible future rides.
That horse will never run again, it is big and dead, and no life is filling it, and no matter how hard I kick it~ it aint never gonna move an inch. Yet the beauty of this lifeless horse' immensity, is that it is also a powerful reminder not to create another one just like it. So I step around it, taking in its bones, seeing its decay, and breathing in and out~ being alive~being in Jesus~ a "new creation" without it.
In our time continuum we live within a moment that was our future just before it slid into our past. Each instance of our existence contains decision, and brevity, and hopefully faith, in a “possible†future with our surmountable past abundantly supplying much needed prudence.
May we be pleased in this instant to be hidden within the hand of our Master, Whose glory moves in every sphere, Whose power lasts, and Whose dominion will ever reign. Who lives inside eternal globes of timeless life, Who will make us like Him, one day… :infinity:
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