To revisit simply means to
go over again, go back to or return to a former state or position. You can only re-visit a place that you once visited. In other words, you go back to a former place because once upon a time, you’ve been there. There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking a recap or being retrospective once in a while; the only problem is the frequency at which you do it. When you are in constant retrospect, you are most likely to get trapped in what seems to you as a huge achievement. Living or dwelling so much in the past hinders your chances of making any meaningful impact in your future. Life in retrospect destabilizes the life you are capable of living in prospect.
It is important to note that no, matter how beautiful, wonderful and huge your achievements were in the past, it will always remain in the mind as just a memory which fades gradually with time. The life you were meant to live is not that which you may have lived in the past, but that which you are required to fulfill in the future. Some people have been entrapped in the past because of their inability to value that which they could possibly do in the future. That which was, is chosen in preference to that which is to come, making it difficult to fulfill the purpose.
Actually there is no big deal in doing a revision, but constant revision can halt your chances of living your vision. The purpose of revision is not to eschew your vision but to help you know the basic things needed to fulfill your vision. To revise is to read previous work, in preparation for a test or examination. Revision is always geared towards a task ahead and not that which has already been completed in the past. There is no point going into reminisce if it is not for the purpose of improving what you can possibly do in the present. Revision is for examination and not examination for revision. Going back to revise after you have already written the exams is insignificant.
Until you forget your achievements in the past, you cannot target that which can bring you fulfillment in the future. The good things you have done could possibly prevent you from the better things you could possibly do. Do not be too careful to remember and ponder always on what you have done in the past. Instead, be prudent on what you could possibly do to transcend it. The past will always retard your movement when you esteem it more than the present and the future as the case maybe.
Looking at the word PAST, one could possibly see it as an acronym and coin it as:
P – preventing
A – all
S – successive
T – trials
To prevent means to stop or preclude something from happening or someone from doing something. Prevention is always geared towards withholding that which is likely or bound to occur. The past paralyzes and nullifies the tendency of making attempts to succeed. It makes you feel that you have tried enough so there is no need for successive trials. Somethings which you were predestined to achieve are not forthcoming simply because your mind is stationed in the past. Many times, you get entrapped in the stigma of the past because you have decided not to let go of it. You have settled in the past as your last resort without knowing the greater things that lie ahead of you. If you fail to leave a thing, you cannot live for another. You are not a failure yet until you choose to prevent all your successive trials, thereby ascertaining your future using your past achievements. What you once had cannot be used to measure up what you could possibly have.
Some people are enamored with the fixation of living in the “good old days”. Many believe that the experiences of the “old days” are too fascinating to forget or get rid of from the mind. Well, the obvious truth is this; though the days of the past might be all good, but it is still OLD. There’s nothing much in the good old days of the past to measure up to the better new days, in the future, starting from the present. When something is old, it is said to be obsolete, antiquated, out of fashion and no longer fit for use. The fact that something is old, is a good reason to replace it with a new one. The old things are somewhat good before your very eyes simply because of your inability to see the new ones. There is still a whole lot that you can possibly do in the future more than what you think you must have achieved in the past. God’s desire is that you live to fulfill purpose and leave what seems to you like a mammoth achievement in the past.
“Not that I have already obtained all these or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. but one thing I do, forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus”. (Philippians 3:12-14)
The scriptural verse above shows the prize which lies ahead is far greater than the price which you have already paid in the past. Do not let the past rob you of the chance of fulfilling purpose. Let go so you can lay hold. Also, you need to know that no matter the mistakes you think you have made in the past, you cannot be entrapped in it. If God can actually forgive and forget your errors, you should also learn to forgive yourself and strive to that which lie ahead of you (2 Cor. 5:17-19).
Written by Solomon M.
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