Do Not Look Back

 As Christians, it should be our desire and single intent to love the Lord with all our being and seek, with our whole heart, to be in His perfect will. Sometimes the urgent things of life have to give way to the thing that is really important, and sometimes the good has to be set aside or renounced for the best.
 We do not have a righteousness of our own. Our spiritual nakedness is covered by Christ's righteousness which comes to us through faith in Him. But being saved by grace through faith and clothed in Christ is not the end goal but the beginning of our new life in Him, and every day we should strive to know Him more, to love Him better, to listen to His voice, to obey His Word, and to develop an ever-closer relationship with Him.
 The complacent Christian does not have an urgency to be about his Father’s business and the proud believer has an alternative agenda, while those that are lukewarm in their faith seem indifferent to their spiritual growth. But the child of God who seeks to lift up the Lord Jesus and to glorify His name, is jealous of the task ahead and resolutely sets his eye on the finishing line of this earthly race.
 If you have met the Lord on your Road in life, Do Not Look Back, why not resolutely set your eyes on the final goal and make it your single intent to love the Lord with all your being and seek with all your heart to be in His perfect will in our lives.
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

Our United Prayer:
Loving Father, we confess that sometimes we look backwards, rather than single-mindedly looking forward to the goal of our calling. May we set our hearts as a flint to do Your will, in the power of the Spirit, to Your praise and glory. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.