Forgetting Those Things Which Are Behind
“THERE are many things about ourselves it were well to forget. An apostle said: ‘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.’ There is no experience in the past, however glorious, which we may safely treasure in the memory as a substitute for present struggle, earnest aspiration, or eager hope. There is no experience, however humiliating, which would be dwelt upon to the paralysis of faith or the enervation of courage. There is a sense in which we should die daily to the past.”