If I'm going to be a victorious believer in today's world, then I must continue to follow the guidelines in the Bible.

If I'm going to walk forward without failure or despair, then I must heed the words of the Apostle Paul in Philippians 3:13, "But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before."

Paul has learned the secret of a happy Christian life. He was too busy pressing toward the mark that Christ had placed before him to become entangled with the cares of yesterday. God commands us to forget the things which are behind us. He knows that any "looking back causes us to stumble in the present."

Luke 9:62 says that "No man having put his hand to the plow and looking back (living in the past) is fit (capable) for the kingdom of God."