Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Continuing
In our walk with God we can begin to see things as routine. Perhaps there are times when life is busy enough that wee even forget to pray. I know this can happen for me. I have to continually remind myself that this is God’s world, and He alone determines what is happening in it. We are just His kids, moving through life. But what is it we are to do? And are we alone in feeling like we need to go on, as if we are the only ones not really getting there? Actually, there are great references in the scriptures how those that went before us had to do this same thing and travel this same road. They, too, had to work at building themselves up in the Lord.
Philippians 3:12 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.
13 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,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
I have heard this scripture used many times to talk about the prize at the end that we all seek. However, for me, it also clearly shows that our walk is a work in progress. Anything we have done to date is in the past, and we are to move toward the mark that Jesus sent. Even though in this lifetime it is unlikely that Paul ever got there (or that we will), Paul clearly kept trying, kept learning, and kept praying.
Today, if you feel like you just have not gone far enough, don’t beat yourself up. Instead, like Paul, set the past in the past. Let’s all press in for that calling with which we were called!
Prayer
Father, we praise and exalt You as the Most High! We thank You for all You do for us everyday. Please help us to press in. We want to lay down sadness, grudges, judging other, and come to sit at the table You have prepared for us. We thank You for that and ask that You send today Your deliverance, Your healing, and Your mighty provision for Your people. In Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name. Amen.