Have you noticed in your car how much smaller the rear view mirror is than your front window? It would be really hard to drive looking in the rear view mirror. In fact, our pace would be much slower, and if you went for any great distance, you would get a pain in the neck! God didn’t create us to live in the past! What the rear view mirror is designed to do is to see who is coming up from behind you! Sometimes while driving, we need to be aware that someone behind us is not slowing down, or that they are trying to pass us. Rear view mirrors can give us needed insight and information. They can also be a glimpse of the past…..the good, the bad and the ugly! Being a positive kind of person, most of my past memories are good. I forget anything bad. Lots of people dwell in, live in, and dwell on the past, so much that they miss the present. And many people only remember the worst instead of remembering how God brought them out and blessed them in the process. We shouldn’t live in yesterday by looking in the rear view mirror. We remember past victories, but we live in the present, fully aware, fully conscious, awake and alive to what God wants to do in and through us TODAY. So be encouraged, your past does not determine your future! While little glimpses every once in a while in your rear view mirror can keep you headed the right direction, your future is much bigger and brighter than your past ever was!
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