There was a 16th-century Venetian painter named Titian. He was famous for one of his paintings~ "An Allegory of Prudence." It already sounds interesting to me. His painting portrayed a man with three heads. ( I could use that! ) One head is the face of a young man facing the future. One head is a mature man eying the present and the last is a wise old man gazing back at the past. Over the heads is the phrase written in Latin which means~ "From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as to not imperil the future." Wow!
Oh~ that we could have enough wisdom to overcome the quilt of past failures and the courage to not repeat them~ resulting in the happiness of living life today full of peace and joy . I so work at it. We all have a story to tell. Some of it wonderful and grand and some of it not so. Yet ~ God allows us to live and learn and love above it all.
We need the wisdom of the man with three heads. I have seen people who never enjoy this moment from reliving the past over and over. I am excited that time heals all wounds and God gives us the hope of the future~ here and one day in Heaven. That excites me.
My mind always goes back to Paul ~ he was the apostle who killed Christians before he met Jesus. Now that is a past hard to forget.
Philippians 3:13-14
King James Version (KJV)
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
I am sure Paul never forgot his past but God had forgiven him and he chose not to live in it. He went on and did great things for the Lord. We too~ can go forward and do great things for God. 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
As 2013 draws to an end ~ lets be reminded to not dwell in the past. We can learn from it but move forward and live life to the fullest as we continue to do great things for God in the brand New Year.
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