No looking back now. Focus on our Lord Jesus, press forward and gun for the prize. Looking back hurts as it either implies you want to return to your old ways (like Lot’s wife who was turned to salt for looking back) or that you are unsatisfied with God and where He has you now. I pray neither of this is the case for you. Here are words you can live by:
Luke 17:32-33
32 Remember what happened to Lot’s wife! (NLT)
33 Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. (ESV)
Philippians 3:14 (NLT)
14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
Luke 9:62
62 Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Hebrew 10:36-39 (ESV)
36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For, “Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
38 but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Hebrew 12:2 (NLT)
We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.