Jesus Take The Wheel

“Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead”

Philippians 3:13

The apostle Paul never owned a car but he understands the difficulty of trying to back into your future. Have you ever tried backing up a car? Especially when you try to use the rear view mirror to do so. It’s actually fun to watch people attempting to back up and especially if they are trying to back up a vehicle with a trailer attached to the back. It’s easy to turn the wheel the wrong direction and end up with the trailer all over the road but no where close to the desired destination. Whats true about backing up a vehicle the apostle Paul says is true about life too.

Here’s the point today, you can’t back into your future, loved one. If you are going to get where God wants you to be you will have to (using another automobile metaphor) let Jesus take the wheel. To get where God wants us to be we can’t go backwards to reach our destiny, what lies ahead the apostle Paul is saying. The apostle gives us two basic instructions we need to do if we are to enjoy our best life ever. First, we must let go, we must forget the things that are behind. Good, bad or indifferent the past is the past, and to get to where God would have us be we must let it go by faith. For most, even the apostle Paul, his passed defined who he believed he was in the present. For Paul the past was his ancestors and his, religion and good works that he believed would gain him the acceptance of God. Second, Paul set his heart and mind to press on to the upward call of God, found only in Jesus Christ through a personal relationship with Him. What Paul was saying is our future is found in Jesus Christ because our past died with him. In other words we don’t even have a past because when we gave our lives to Jesus, we received new life, we were Born Again!

Press on today to know the Lord, loved one, keep moving forward growing in Gods Word with your eyes on the prize, looking unto to Jesus, following His example, receiving His grace knowing God has something new thing in store for you. Your best life is still to be as its in front of you, here right now. Forget the past yet holding onto the the lessons learned along the way and then press on to apprehend that which you were apprehended for. God saved you for Himself, to know Him and to enjoy Him, to walk with Him !

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.”

Isaiah 43:2

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