Don't look back

There is a great verse in Luke 17: Remember Lots wife! Jesus is going on about the coming of the Kingdom and what His return (Rapture and Second Coming) will be like. He then equates being ready for that coming with holding on to our lives and the things that we cherish the most. Paul said in Phil. 3 that he forgot all that was behind him and he pressed forward toward Christ. Paul does a whole lot of reminiscing and storytelling about his past throughout the Epistles and Acts, So clearly he wasn't saying don't remember your past. I believe what these 2 scriptures are calling us to do is move forward Don't CLING to the things behind you. Don't live in yesterday. If Christ is in you then you are brand new. Don't let the attractiveness of the old self cause you to miss out on where God is taking you. Remember Lots wife!