- "You don't get invited to every party."
- Turning the page requires forgetting and straining.
Philippians 3:13 // 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…
If we don't learn how to turn the page:
- We won't heal.
- We won’t be ready for what’s to come.
- We won't appreciate what's to come.
1. Forgetting
Philippians 3:3-7 // For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reasons for such confidence.If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
- Forgetting what is behind means leaving both the good and the bad in the past.
- Leave it!
2. Straining
Philippians 3:14 // I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
- Straining towards what’s ahead means giving all we have to God’s plans.
- Reflect on what is hard to forget, make peace with it, so you can leave it.
