Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:13-14 (ESV)

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

James 4:14 (ESV)

But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead.

Parallelism: stating something twice in different ways.

In other words, two statements work together to complete an idea.

Parallelism

• Psalm 23 says “The Lord is my shepherd” “I shall not want”

• Psalms 78:1 says “O my people, hear my teaching;” “listen to the words of my mouth.”

• Ecclesiastes 3:1 “There is a time for everything,” “and a season for every activity under heaven:”

1. We Need to Forget our Resentments

What Do We Need to Forget?

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Mark 11:25 (ESV)

1. We Need to forget our resentments 2. We need to forget our worries.

What Do We Need to Forget?

1. We Need to forget our resentments 2. We need to forget our worries. 3. We need to forget our failures.

What Do We Need to Forget?

Mark Twain

“The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won’t sit upon a cold stove lid, either.”

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.“

--Theodore Roosevelt