Don’t Look Back
In the late 1962s I traveled to the Phoenix Race Track with Joe Ziems and Ziems Ford Corners. We were guests of Carroll Shelby at the introduction of the Ford powered by Shelby A C Cobra. After the introduction session we were taken out to the race track and a drive. Carroll instructed us, when racing flat out, at the front of the pack or in the middle, you never look back. Until I had to unclutter my life to make room for the really important, I loved auto racing, indeed, any aspect of the motor industry. In fact, at Indy 500 or any NASCAR track, if you are leading a pack of two dozen or more cars in close proximity at well above 150-mph, you dare not look back or worry about what the guy or gal four cars back is doing.
Full speed ahead demands your full attention on your driving and the road ahead. Rear view mirrors were invented for race cars well over a hundred years ago because, for a brief second, you can make a fast check on what’s coming, but Carroll is right: keep your eye on the road ahead and your driving.
Today, Paul is leading us into several hot subjects in our race with the culture, marriage, child rearing, and slavery. For 175 years in the U.S.A. we Christians have been at the front of the pack, doing what Paul said, moving forward with all our heart, flat out, peddle to the metal. Recently we have taken our eye off the road and our performance and became critics of those closing in on us, and we crashed.