The Things That are Behind

“Forget the things that are behind,

the moment they are past,

leaving them with God.”

Hannah Whitall Smith includes that line in her timeless work, The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life. There she says it’s something she “came across in an old book.”

Profound advice for you and me on this first Sunday of a new calendar year: “Forget the things that are behind, the moment they are past, leaving them with God.”

What are some of those “things that are behind” you? 

Are you able to be “leaving them with God” today? 

Once again:  “Forget the things that are behind, the moment they are past, leaving them with God.”