A Matter of Choice

eDevotion

Encouragement for your daily walk with God 

I once read about a man who was beginning to lose his memory. He was sent to a specialist and after a careful examination the doctor told him there was a possible surgical solution. However, it was extremely risky; one so delicate that the slightest mistake would result in total blindness.

The surgeon asked, "So, which would you rather have, your sight or your memory?" The man pondered the question for a while and replied, "My sight, because I would rather see where I am going than remember where I have been."

That story reminded of every Christ follower’s enemy. He constantly digs up our past and reminds us of our failures and our sins. He wants to keep us so wrapped up in them that it hinders our progress in maturity towards Christ.   

Today and every day we have a choice to make! We can choose to be bound by our past failures and the sins that so easily beset us, or we can keep our sight on Jesus, the Author and Finisher [the Perfecter] of our faith. 

Free yourself from the shackles of the past! Keep your eye on the prize! 

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, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14