One of the FAM Fellowship members shared this with me last Friday, and since it’s such a powerful and important message for everyone standing for marriage restoration, I wanted to share it here as well! So I thank Lorraine for her permission to do so! Get the message and you’ll truly be blessed and encouraged!

“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.” Philippians 3:13

It’s interesting that Paul said, “This ONE thing I do”, then he named TWO things: “forgetting those things which are behind, AND reaching forth unto those things which are before.” Forgetting what’s behind and reaching to what’s ahead– that does not sound like only one thing to me. Paul considered it one thing though.

You can’t reach forward and still be looking behind… it’s not possible. To reach to what’s ahead you have to set your focus on it, you have to give attention to it, you have to keep moving toward it to attain it. As you do, the result is that you are leaving what’s behind because it is no longer the object of your focus, your intent, your goal.

On the flip side, if you are still hanging on to what’s in the past, if you are still focused on it, if you are looking behind, then you can’t and won’t go forward. The one act of “staying in the past” automatically effects and determines what’s ahead–so in reality it is only one act that you are doing but it encompasses both your past and your future. It’s a “two for one” package.

“And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” (Luke 9:62) You can’t look back and go forward at the same time. When you do one, the other one is effected. Which will it be? Are you going to keep looking backward? Or go forward? You only have to make ONE choice.

Have a great day. If you keep looking behind it will effect what’s ahead. If you reach ahead, what’s behind will be forgotten.

Coffee Break is a morning devotional written by Lorraine Ezell and it’s sent by email free of charge for the asking from About the Master’s Business Ministry, Inc.

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Posted Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 2:58 pm in Seeds Of Faith.