Isn’t life interesting? Tomorrow, today will be yesterday. It will be a day in our past. Whether or not it was fully utilised is immaterial. Today would have taken over but the most interesting part is that one way or the other we often ignore today and dwell on yesterday.
However, the successes or failures of yesterday are better left with yesterday. Take our athlete Nigel Amos, we celebrated him when he won several races and even beat the invincible Kenyan, Rudisha. I am not certain but I suspect he might have counted on the success of yesterday when he had to face him again; Rudisha won the second round. The success of yesterday may make one a once-off hit who will soon be forgotten. Anybody with a hunger for success should use yesterday’s lessons to act today and shape tomorrow.

Somehow the past is very stubborn. At times when one wants to carve a new path the past crops up. I have heard some people bring up sordid details of the past about successful people, I presume because of jealousy; ‘oh he looks like this today but he used to walk barefoot to school’. They will see a Pastor who is wholly committed to the Lord and say ‘oh this one, I know him, he used to be a player’.
I believe everyone has a past they are not proud of. The good news is that nobody should be defined by their past. Why? Each passing day there is a streak of wisdom deposited in our lives, we grow, we outgrow certain things that conflict with the future we envision.
The past is just that, the past. The future is much brighter!

Brothers and sisters, 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. Phillipians 3:13-14 NIV