THE CHRITIAN LIFE CANNOT FEED ON NEGATIVES
By A. W. Tozer
 
. . .Forgetting those things which are behind,
and reaching forth unto those things which are before.
   Philippians 3:13

  The Christian is saved from his past sins.  With these
he simply has nothing more to do; they are among the
things to be forgotten as the night is forgotten at the
dawning of the day.

  The Christian is also saved from the wrath to come.
With this also he has nothing to do.  The wrath of God
exists, but not for him.  Sin and wrath have a cause and
effect relationship, and because for the Christian sin is
canceled, wrath is canceled also.  To be engrossed still in
what we have been saved from is to live in a state of
negation.

  We are not called to fellowship with nonexistence.  We
are called to things that exist in truth, to positive things,
and it is as we become occupied with these that health
comes to the soul.

  Spiritual life cannot feed on negatives.  The man who
is constantly reciting the evils of his unconverted days is
looking in the wrong direction.  He is like a man trying to
run a race while looking back over his shoulder!

  There is an art of forgetting, and every Christian
should become skilled in it.  Forgetting the things which
are behind is a positive necessity if we are to become
more than mere babes in Christ.

  And here's the good part: into the empty world
vacated by our sins and failures rushes the blessed
Spirit of God, bringing with Him everything new.  New
life, new hope, new enjoyments, new interests, new
purposeful toil, and best of all a new and satisfying
object toward which to direct our soul's enraptured
gaze!
 
 

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.