myfaithisnotdead.

If you look in the rear view mirror the whole your drive, you will lose sight of the road ahead.

When you’re driving, have you ever caught yourself spending too much time looking at the rear view mirror? Maybe something happened, and you wanted a second glance at it. Maybe there is someone behind you that’s driving dangerously, or like an idiot, and made you mad. Whatever the case is, you end up spending too much time looking in the mirror, and your eyes are now off of the road in front of you. 

I know that this happened to me one time, I was driving, and there was a ton of traffic due to construction. I was trying to change lanes, and cars started to move. I looked back a million times to see if it was clear to go, and I failed to notice that everyone else had stopped moving. I hit the car in front of me. Luckily there was no damage to either vehicles, and the lady was really, really nice. Things could have been a lot worse.

Sometimes I think that as Christians we spend so much time looking back, into our lives what we have done wrong, or right we did right. We look at what others have done to us, who has hurt us, or other things. We spend so much time looking back, that we forget what lies a head, and we get into a head on collision.

Our past affects our future in a huge way. But I hope we don’t make the mistake of mixing the two up. Our past is our past, and our future is our future. One is known, and the other is not. 

I guess my prayer would be that we stop living in the past, that we would take our eyes off of the “rear view mirror”, and focus them on the road a head.