

"...reaching forward to what lies ahead..."
Paul was a driven individual. He had a sordid past. He discusses at length what he had done and accomplished in the past, but he did not focus on it. He was more interested in the future. This is remarkable considering that Paul was probably less than a decade from his death. I have found that the older a person gets, the more they tend to focus on the past. But Paul admonishes us not to. Why? There is nothing wrong with remembering the past, but there is a great deal wrong w