If you are given a choice to see or to lose your memory, what would you choose ?
Would you choose to see because you would rather see where you are going than remember where you have been.
In Philippians 3, the Apostle Paul made the same choice spiritually. His past, with its success and its shame, he chose to forget. He said that all that had been done before had the value of dung. What mattered to him most was keeping his eye on the goal of gaining Christ's approval.
This is the mindset of a matured Christian. It's what God is working to develop in our lives (Philippians 3:13-15). We cannot forget our past but we do not have to live in it. Any good we may have done is from God, so we can only be thankful. When we confess our sins, they are buried in the deepest sea.
What do you choose? To see or to remember?
Philippians 3:13-14
Forgetting those things which are behind, I press toward the prize of the highest calling of God in Jesus Christ.