Look Not Behind Thee, Only Look Forward and Believe

Seeing Vegas in the rear view mirror 

In a recent Facebook post I talked about how I went with my Dad on his last semi trip for the season. We got a load to Los Angeles, California to deliver Idaho potatoes. On our way home, as we were going though Las Vegas, Nevada my dad made the comment in reference to returning home "I only like to see Vegas in my rearview minor." I got thinking about that, as I was thinking I had the thought come to mind: "Look not behind thee, only look forward and believe."

Having that thought come to mind really brings a lot of peace from returning home early. Look back at the good memories and experiences you had. Don't look back wishing things are different. Coming home is completely out of our control. Our health is out of our control.  Look forward and believe. Look forward to the feature. Elder Edward Dube, of the 70, gave a great talk about this in the October 2013 General Conference. His talk was titled "Look Ahead and Believe". There are some pretty incredible things he said. Here are something's, which I really enjoyed and brought a lot of peace.  First he said talking about bishops or stake presidents, but I think it applies PERFECTLY for missionaries:

"When a stake president or a bishop is released, he joyfully accepts his release, and when a calling is extended to serve in any way which the Lord, through His servants, 'seeth fit' (Mosiah 3:19), he is not overshadowed by his previous experience, nor does he look back and think that he has served enough. He is 'not weary in well-doing,' because he knows that he is 'laying the foundation of a great work' with a clear vision that such efforts bless lives for eternity. Thus “out of small things proceedeth that which is great” (D&C 64:33)."

Me and My companion walking on the streets in Virginia
(Credit: Jason F. Wright) 

I love how he said he does not look back and think has he served enough. Missionaries need to
remember that. Don't look back and wonder if you did enough. If Heavenly Father sent you home you did all that was required of you.

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, also, said this:

“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future” (“The Best Is Yet to Be,” Ensign, Jan. 2010, 24; or Liahona, Jan. 2010, 18).

It's not about where we have been, Its about where we are
willing to go.

Look ahead! Don't look back! Have faith that the future is for our best! His ways are not our ways. He can see all both in the past, current, and future! We need to trust Him! My grandpa once told me that all of his hard times have ended up being really useful latter on in life. THE BEST IT YET TO BE!!

I want to end this post with one last quote from Elder Dube, He said:

"In the sight of the Lord, it is not so much what we have done or where we have been but much more where we are willing to go."

It really is all about where we will go. The Lord may be testing us to see what we will do. Will we go where the Lord wants us to go? Will we say what He wants us to say? Will we be what He wants us to be?

Don't look back. Look forward to the future. Look ahead and believe. Look not behind thee, only look forward and believe.

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