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“There is a reason the windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror.”

A thought by Max Lucado from his book, Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World (Kindle Location 867). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

That’s a good thought isn’t?  I haven’t ever really stopped and tried to come up for a reason why that is true but Max has.

He says, “Your future matters more than your past. God’s grace is greater than your sin. What you did was not good. But your God is good. And he will forgive you. He is ready to write a new chapter in your life. Say with Paul, ‘Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God is calling us’ (Phil. 3:13–14 TLB).”

He then says, “Denalyn and I enjoyed a nice dinner at a local restaurant the other night. About the same time we received our bill, we received a visit from a church member. He spotted us and came over to say hello. After we chatted for a moment, he reached down and took our bill and said, ‘I’ll take this.’ (What a godly man.) When he took it, guess what I did? I let him! I even ordered extra dessert. (Not really.) I just let him do what he wanted to do: I let him take it away.

“Someday we will all stand before God. All of us will be present. All of us will have to give an account for our lives. Every thought, every deed, every action. Were it not for the grace of Christ, I would find this to be a terrifying thought. Yet, according to Scripture, Jesus came to ‘take away the sins of the world’ (John 1:29 PHILLIPS). On the day when I appear before the judgment seat of God, I will point to Christ. When my list of sins is produced, I will gesture toward him and say, ‘He took it.’ Let him take yours.”

You see, “There is a reason the windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror. Your future matters more than your past.”

God through his Son Jesus wants to take care of your past.  Your past is past.  Let him forgive you of the guilt of your past.

As Max said earlier, “Guilt sucks the life out of our souls. Grace restores it.”  Just let him have it.  Ask him to forgive you and he will.  Then you can go on with him into your future.  

Would you do that today? 
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