about burning the past

We can all look backward. We can all play the game on Monday morning. Looking back we can find faults and see the mistakes. When we have a loss, we can find more mistakes than ever. Losing hurts. Sometimes the pain of the loss is so great we do not want to play again. However, when we look backward, we strain our necks. When we look backward, quite obviously, we are not looking forward. When we look back we can see the good and wonderful or the bad and the awful. It makes no difference about what you see when you look backward because looking backward is not what you are supposed to do. What you are supposed to do is look forward.

When your life and heart are filled with hope, then looking forward is easy. When your past has killed your hope, you must reconstruct a vision for your future and leave the past behind. Past hurts, past problems, past defeats, and past obstacles must all be left in the past. They must all be burned and the ashes dispersed into the wind. Genesis 19:23 By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah--from the LORD out of the heavens. 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities--and also the vegetation in the land. 26 But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (NIV)