📖 I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. —Philippians 3:13-14 AMPC
God doesn't want us stuck in the past. He wants us moving forward towards the things that he has preordained for us. Lets look at two words that Paul used. One word was straining. He was exerting as much energy as he could to accomplish the will of God. The second word is press. Once again, he used a word meaning to use a lot of energy. God doesn't want us using our energies to re-live the past. Take those energies to make progress. Let's strain and press into what God has for us. It pleases Him when we do.
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