The Backup Camera

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

One of the greatest inventions known to man is that little camera on the dashboard that lets you look clearly as you put that car in reverse.
Our society is so goal oriented that we are constantly encouraged to just continue to strive forward to keep moving. And there’s truly nothing wrong with motivation to move forward-to rise upward. However I think that if we never look back we forget things: important things that can either encourage or set up future stumbling blocks for us. Unresolved grief, trauma and fear will creep up on you when you least expect it or when you’re totally unprepared for it. It’s one of the tools that the devil can use against us. Sometimes it’s part of healing to simply look at where we’ve been, who was in our lives at the time and to either glory in God’s victory in our lives or to reflect on how we could have handled things differently.
There’s not a day ahead that He hasn’t already seen-He knows our future. We can only see our past, maybe there’s a higher plan in that?!