The past couple of days I've been trying to hurry up and get my garden planted so it'll be ready for the rain that's supposed to move in tomorrow night. I'm half way there and off from work tomorrow so I don't think that it'll be a problem but you never know until it's done. I tilled all of the rows where I'm planting yesterday but it reminded me of a scripture today. Luke 9:62 But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God."
Using that tiller was a perfect illustration for this scripture. If I were to have looked back when I was tilling my rows, I would have probably ran over some of my other plants and killed them. Now that I'm a Christian, I have no need to look back to the life I used to live. If I had one foot pointed backward and one forward I would just fall flat on my face. I wouldn't be able to go anywhere, and I certainly wouldn't be able to do anything for the kingdom of God which would make me unfit.
I think that there are a lot of people in that condition at one time or another in their walk. Satan has a great way of tricking people into believing that they can be a follower of Christ and still live exactly like they did before they believed. That couldn't be further from the truth. The main goal of a Christian is to become as much like Christ as possible. How can anyone do that if they are still living the old sinful life that they've always been in? It can't be done. We must put our shoulder to the plow and go forward, not looking back at where we've been but ahead to where we're going.
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