KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
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THERE'S A WONDERFUL moment in an otherwise mediocre movie that has always stayed with me...
It sums up the attitude I think we should all adopt. The film is called The Gumball Rally, and it's about an illegal cross-country road race of amateur sports cars owners. The owner of a Ferrari hires a ringer, a professional racing car driver played by Raul Julia. Just before the race is about to start, the driver reaches up to the windshield and yanks off the rearview mirror. The owner of the car, sitting in the passenger seat, is stunned. "What are you doing?" he asks. The driver just smiles and says, "What's behind me doesn't matter."
Most of us spend inordinate amounts of time looking in our lives' rearview mirrors. Sometimes it's minor matter, like a Chicago Cubs fan dwelling over his team's century-long inability to win a World Series. But most times it's a weightier issue, such as siblings spending twenty years at each other's throat over who did and didn't do what when their father died (Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine).
KneEmail: "Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead" (Phil. 3:13; cf. Eph. 4:31-32).