LEARN FROM THE PAST AND PRESS ON

We seem to grow more spiritually when life is unpleasant than when we are comfortable. It requires a level of maturity not to get sidetracked by life's hard knocks and injustice.

We cannot live in the past and claim the future. We cannot move to second base and at the same time hug first base. Instead, we must learn from the past. We must come to terms with our past and press on.

Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but 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 a song that says I'm not what I want to be, I'm not what I'm gonna be, but praise God I'm not what I was. Thank you, Jesus.