Don't Look Back - John Schlitt

Every morning as I look into the mirror

Yesterday’s mistakes are so painfully clear

I could let them take me under, be a source of misery

Or I could understand the power of the blood that’s shed for me

Often I’m reminded that there’s nothing we can do

That would take away the sacrifice for me and you

So when you feel the guilt of the enemy’s attack

Just know you’ve been forgiven and don’t look back

Don’t look back — Yesterday is over, today is a brand new day

Don’t look back — It’s not the answer, no it’s not the way

You can’t go forward when you keep looking back

How can you think about the future

When you’re haunted by the past?

God don’t want you to live like that

Put your hand to the plow and don’t look back

I know the straight and narrow is the path that I should see

Yet I’m often tempted by the way it used to be

Seems like only good times keep flashing through my brain

But then I stop and I remember the cost, all the pain

Don’t look back — Those old temptations were never good for you

Don’t look back — There’s nothing there that can help you get through

Why do we dig up the old man

When there’s so much ahead?

Why can’t we do what Jesus said

And let the dead bury the dead?