There is a God in Heaven, who is infinite and eternal, an everlasting glorified and exalted being. He is a resurrected, holy, and perfected Spirit and we are his children by choice of us accepting and by his adoption through love. Our daily life is a time of probation. We are being schooled, tested and examined allotted times to ourselves. We are given laws and circumstances so we can progress and advance. The plan of salvation originated with the Father, it is God's gospel. Christ became and is chief advocate and supported, but God ordained the plan. This plan is to enable his spiritual children to grow from their primevil spirit state to a stay of glory, dignity, and exaltation, so we will be like him, the Father. To live an eternal life like him, to have power and dominion, might, glory, and omnipotence like him. This plan has been given us for a period of time to enable us to advance along the course leading to exaltation. The Lord has taught every generation that we are here to be tried and through obedience to the gospel we shall receive the eternal reward of exaltation in his presence. We are not left to walk in darkness. The Holy Spirit has been given to all willing to receive him for divine assistance and guidance. We are combined spirits and bodies of flesh and bones. The plan of salvation calls for the separation of the Spirit and the body. The body to return to earth from where it came from the seed of Adam. The Spirit to come into the judgement seat of God to receive eternal life with God or damnation a way from God.

This one Thing

"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."  Philippians 3:13

It's interesting that Paul said, "This ONE thing I do", then he named TWO things: "forgetting those things which are behind, AND reaching forth unto those things which are before."  Forgetting what's behind and reaching to what's ahead-- that does not sound like only one thing to me.  Paul considered it one thing though. 

You can't reach forward and still be looking behind... it's not possible.  To reach to what's ahead you have to set your focus on it, you have to give attention to it, you have to keep moving toward it to attain it.  As you do, the result is that you are leaving what's behind because it is no longer the object of your focus, your intent, your goal. 

On the flip side, if you are still hanging on to what's in the past, if you are still focused on it, if you are looking behind, then you can't and won't go forward.  The one act of "staying in the past" automatically effects and determines what's ahead-- so in reality it is only one act that you are doing but it encompasses both your past and your future.  It's a "two for one" package.    

 "And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." (Luke 9:62)  You can't look back and go forward at the same time.  When you do one, the other one is effected.  Which will it be?  Are you going to keep looking backward?  Or go forward?  You only have to make ONE choice. 

If you keep looking behind it will effect what's ahead.  If you reach ahead, what's behind will be forgotten.