Our goal, our purpose is to bring glory to God. Nothing will keep you from doing this like wallowing in your past. When I read this, I always think of that old song- "I have decided to follow Jesus- no turning back, no turning back. The world behind me, the cross before me, no turning back, no turning back." We can't turn around to even look at what we're leaving- and why would we want to? Look where we're going! Look what we get! IN the words of John Piper- "We GET Jesus." We GET to know Him. We GET to love Him. We GET to serve Him. Why on earth, with all that we get, would we want to give thought to what we've left behind?

Philippians 3:12-14