Pilgrim Soldier

I was walking past the desk of one of my colleagues earlier and her desktop picture sparked a thought in my mind. The picture is of the view out of the car windscreen of the road ahead. What is not immediately obvious is that in the rear-view mirror there is a jet-fighter firing a missile.

The first thought that came was of the Meatloaf (sorry!!) song “Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are” and this in turn reminded me of a discussion that we had in our House group last Thursday! The discussion was around the theme of Temptation and how to deal with them, and logically we also covered the theme of sin! Although I couldn’t remember the exact verses at the time I made mention of the fact that we tend to hold onto our sin and go back to God time and again to repent of the things we have done! Yet Jeremiah 31:31-34, Hebrews 8:12 and Hebrews 10:17 all say the same thing! Basically that under the New Covenant that God gave us through Christ’s death and resurrection, that God chooses to not remember our sins.

All to often in our Christian lives we are hampered from moving forward because our eyes are fixed on our past sin, instead of having our eyes firmly fixed on the Him. Instead, we should be looking towards the destination of our lives, rather than on the jet-fighter in the rear-view mirror that is ready to destroy us! We must take hold of the promise that God gives us in the Bible.

Objects in the rear-view mirror may appear closer than they are, but in reality they are simply a mirage put there to distract us from our goal!