Since I am bringing all my energies to forget the past and look forward to what lies ahead (so I may endure to the end for the prize which God is calling us up to heaven because of what Christ Jesus did for us), I will be re-arranging what I’ve published online so that my site will help with achieving that goal.
I know that not everyone is interested in this prize above. Most people love this world too much to even think of being in such a race. This world has its own prizes for its habitants; riches and fame being the most popular. Lust for worldly treasures are usually kept private, especially since the major portion of the population has learned to settle for merely being able to survive.
There is so much going wrong these days. No one is going to save this world. The best we can do is help to improve it somehow by our having lived in it. (Don’t misinterpret what I’m about to say and think that I’m about to die soon.) I’ve lived long enough to have some useful luggage to leave behind now. I’ve packed my past into these bags I’m ready to let go of. Its contents are not physical. They’re educational. Society is still quite ignorant about such things as Aspergers (and a lot of other things too). If it doesn’t appreciate inheriting what knowledge I have to pass down, there is nothing I can do about that.
My past I aim to put behind me is the present and future others may embrace. The things of this world — politics, autism/asperger awareness events, psychology, technology, books to know-it-all, etc. — have become too heavy for me to carry as I strive towards the heavenly prize. It would be easier for me to simply delete as much as I can so its not in-my-face anymore. Instead of taking the easy way out, I’ll work at finding ways to keep what I’ve published online for others to pick through, but it has to be done in a way that enables me to forget about it after its been reorganized.
“No, dear brothers, I am still not all I should be but I am bringing all my energies to bear on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God is calling us up to heaven because of what Christ Jesus did for us.” [LBV]
I used to have a stats program gathering data from the time I began my blog up until it was moved and revamped yesterday. That statistical information burned deep into my conscience. I call it bagged knowledge. I will not employ stats anymore. Its had its time and place; now its been laid to rest. The purpose it served was to guide me with my decisions about what I’ve published. Now that I’ve made my decisions, I don’t need any more statistical data.
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” [KJV]
