God Cares More About Your Future Than He Does About Your Past
- By Fern Poyser
- Published 05/18/2008
You can't drive a car forward by looking backward all the time. If you try, you will crash! Even though the average driver travels twelve thousand miles a year moving forward for one mile in reverse, more accidents happen while backing up than while going forward. Keep your eyes focused on where you are going!
When you are driving a car, have you ever noticed how big your windshield is compared to how big your rearview mirror is? Your rear view mirror is tiny compared to all the windows that are put in the car so that you can see out. Why is that? Because that is how much more important WHERE YOU ARE GOING is than WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN.
Certainly we can look back and learn from the mistakes or triumphs we have had in the past, but we don't spend all our time looking in the rear view mirror. If we did, we would crash into whatever is just ahead of us. We only need to take a glimpse at what is behind us every once in a while to make sure it doesn't creep up on us unawares. The rest of the time we spend looking at where we are going, check ing our dashboard to see how fast we are heading there, and checking the engine gauges and lights tomake sure all is running smoothly. We make sure we have enough gas and that the air is the right temperature. We play the right kind of music on the radio.
Destiny is not about where we have been, it's about what we are doing now in the present to make sure we are headed where God wants us to go in the future.
When you are driving a car, have you ever noticed how big your windshield is compared to how big your rearview mirror is? Your rear view mirror is tiny compared to all the windows that are put in the car so that you can see out. Why is that? Because that is how much more important WHERE YOU ARE GOING is than WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN.
Certainly we can look back and learn from the mistakes or triumphs we have had in the past, but we don't spend all our time looking in the rear view mirror. If we did, we would crash into whatever is just ahead of us. We only need to take a glimpse at what is behind us every once in a while to make sure it doesn't creep up on us unawares. The rest of the time we spend looking at where we are going, check ing our dashboard to see how fast we are heading there, and checking the engine gauges and lights tomake sure all is running smoothly. We make sure we have enough gas and that the air is the right temperature. We play the right kind of music on the radio.
Destiny is not about where we have been, it's about what we are doing now in the present to make sure we are headed where God wants us to go in the future.