It is so good to have you in church today. You may be seated. Praise God. You know, I find it so interesting to hear people give the secret to their success. You know, people will say there’s that one thing that I did or you pick up a magazine and you you see what is the secrets to their success and they’ll list them.
But you always want to know what’s that first thing. What’s that one thing? I always like to just kind of learn from people. I like to know what they’re doing. The Bible says iron sharpens iron as one man sharpens another. The Apostle Paul who wrote threearters of the New Testament shared his secret. He said, ‘There’s one thing that I do. You can find it in Philippians 3:12.
He says, ‘The one thing I do is forgetting the things that are behind and pressing towards what is in front of me. See, the Apostle Paul knew when he was looking back, he couldn’t press forward. He said, “I let the things go that are behind me. I don’t look back.” What he was was saying was I don’t go back to my old mistakes. I don’t relive my failures.
He said the most important thing, the thing that has helped me the very most is to not look back. Don’t look back would be his number one statement. Joel and I used to play raetball all the time. We love that game so much. It’s a fast game and many of you know the game of raetball. the court. It’s like a a a room with with four walls around it and a ceiling. It’s a great game, fast game.
You play it with a shorter racket and a really bouncy ball. But there’s one safety rule to this game that you must adhere to. And that is don’t look back at the ball. You cannot look back at the ball because that ball comes with such furious speed from the back wall that it can literally smack you in the face. and cause you injury. A player was playing raetball and they looked back and that ball smacked them right in the eye and they lost their eyesight. I was like freaked out.
Like every time I got in the court I was like, “Give me some goggles.” I remember thinking, “Victoria, look forward. Don’t look back. Play the ball that’s in front of you. If it goes behind you, don’t worry. You’ll always get another chance to hit the ball.” See, racket ball is a forward- facing game. No matter where you are on the court, you just keep looking forward. You just keep playing the ball at hand.
