The Repeat Queen

Philippians 3:13-14, “Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God's heavenly call in Christ Jesus.” HCSB

I am known to be the “Repeat Queen”. Why? Because I love to repeat! I can not just listen to a song that I love just once! I have to listen to it over and over and over again! When I watch a movie that I love, I watch it over and over and over again, even if I’m not sitting at the TV, I just leave it playing while I’m around the apartment. I know it’s crazy, and other than a select few, it typically drives people crazy too! But I still love it!

I have found in life that it is easy to desire the same thing. I often find myself wanting to repeat previous times in my life that seemed so great! We often want to go back to the moment in life when everything seemed so right instead of facing what is going in our lives today. However, in a world that is changing so quickly there is one thing that will never change, time. Time is always moving forward. Our lives are moving forward, and there is no amount of money or success that can change that! We can’t sit down and take our DVR remote and fast forward or rewind or repeat any part of our lives. We only have the moment that is here right now, for right now, because as quickly as it comes, it will quickly go, never to come again.

The song “This Day” written by Lowell Alexander states,

“This day is fragile - soon it will end
And once it has vanished, it will not come again
So let us love with a love pure and strong
Before this day is gone

This day is fleeting when it slips away
Not all our money can buy back this day
So let us pray that we might be a friend
Before this day is gone

This day is frail - it will pass by
So before it’s too late to recapture the time
Let us share love, let us share God
Before this day is gone"

Instead of desiring the past we need to push forward, because as we are striving for what is behind, the present is quickly passing by.