Moving Forward

I heard a friend quote someone as saying that we spend our lives like an oarsman (or is that person?), we sit facing the direction we have come from, struggling to move forward in a direction that we can not see. How true and yet how deceiving, the past does lie behind us, all our struggles, all our misdirection and deliberate journeys off course are there for us to see, but the future is not an unknown territory that we must fear, frightened that our miss strokes of the past will dictate our future course. We as Christians face the future with hope, we know where we are going, we know who we travel with, we are not tossed about on the winds or whims of time. But, and it is a big but, we travel forward only with the big picture in mind, death, disease, disaster, politics, employment, our life partner (s) etc make life complicated. So should we be frightened of the future? Not at all, live the moment, take the risk, kiss the girl, yes make that choice remembering God's commandments, the power of the Holy Spirit and the guidance of scripture, but make a choice, be brave, be bold, take a risk in people and live life to the full!

Joshua 1:7 :Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. (NIV)