Whether we are driving a car, snow plow or preparing our garden for spring, it’s important to focus on where we are going or the project at hand.
I would say, it is pretty important to stay between the lines of the road if you are driving or to watch where that pile of snow you are pushing will end up. On the other hand, the garden sure looks neat (organized/together) when you plant your rows straight.
Well, here in the south, we do not have a lot of experience with snow but I believe all of us can relate to keeping it between the lines. We even take a test on it to be able to lawfully drive a car. Some of us study for it some of us do not.
In studying the Bible, it gives us wisdom on how to plow or drive through our life. Luke 9:62 tells us:
But Jesus said to him, “no one having put his hand on the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” NKJV
What does this mean? To me it means, if you are always looking back you cannot focus on where you are “driving.” In the old days the plows were in front of you. Now a ‘days we pull them behind us if we are working in the garden. {for planting a future crop} Do you get it?
He is and will continue to do great things in our lives our future. We do not need to look behind us and focus on the past. If we do, He cannot use us to benefit His kingdom- our future.
So what is it going to be? Are we going to let go of the past and focus on what lies ahead with expectation and promise? Are we going to “let go and let God?”
Are we going to continue to make a mess of our garden or get in lawful trouble for not keeping it between the lines by always looking back? Will God be able to use us just as we are with all of our past and sins alike?
He can and he will if we just focus on Him face forward to the Son light!
Plow forward.
His love and mine, Lauren
Photo credit: Earl Morris as he plows around a stump (Photograph taken for International Harvester’s Agricultural Extension Department.)
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