What reasons do people have for giving up? Maybe they lose belief that something is possible? They don't experience the results they were expecting?

Have you felt like giving up? Have you ever felt like throwing in the towel? We all have! This passage is not saying that you disqualified yourself when you are discouraged or doubting. Instead, it is encouraging us to keep our hands on the plow, and focus on today. A plower's goal was to create straight lines across the field, enabling the best opportunity for harvest. If he takes his hand off and looks back, he will not be able to create straight lines, but instead he will make crooked ones.

If you set out, committed to serve the Lord, keep your eyes fixed on Him and don't allow the distractions that you used to focus on draw your attention away. Unswervingly focus on Him who is before you and allow His forgiveness and grace give you the will to press forward.

Luke 9.62

62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”

[ WHAT ] is this passage saying and what is a key truth or thought that we learn?

+ What is Jesus urging us to do?

+ Why do you think that looking back hinders us from being fit for service in His Kingdom?

[ HOW ] is the Lord calling me to action/obedience?

+ Is there sin to confess or a next step to take? How has it gone since last time?

+ Jesus is urging us to keep our eyes fixed forward. What often tempts you to pull your gaze off of Him? What distracts you?

+ Is there a past sin, which you’ve already confessed, for which you need to accept the Lord’s forgiveness for so that you can stop “looking back” at it in shame & guilt?

[ WHO ] am I walking with and praying for to discover Jesus?

+ What is my next step?

+ Whose eyes can you help encourage to stay fixed forward?