Go Forward (Poem)

 

Go Forward

When you can’t change the past, go forward!
Though you are standing before the Red Sea at a loss;
Your old master is behind you, closing on your heels;
Go forward, my friend, forward to the cross!

Through your struggles, you can’t feel your Saviour near;
You have stumbled, you have faltered, heart filled now with fear;
But God’s grace is so real - it is available - He is waiting for your cry,
Press forward into His presence, receive the Lord’s mercy from on high.

Go forward - there is still hope though troubles darken your skies;
Go forward, claim His forgiveness, reach forward to the prize.
Don’t run from the Saviour, when your soul feels at wit’s end,
Go forward to the Shepherd, He will carry you, my friend.

Go forward into Jesus’ everlasting arms.
Go forward!

October 12th, 2025
Jerry Bouey

Exodus 14:15-17 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

2 Kings 4:22-24 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again. And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well. Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.

Job 23:8-10 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Philippians 3:12-14 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 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.