A new year has just arrived. 2012… Can you believe it?! Let’s seize it for Christ.
Philippians 3
…all of it. Verses 10-14 seemed relevant for this time:
“I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold o that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
Forgetting…
Straining.
New Year’s Eve service was 5 hours ago but the pastor’s exhortations ring in my mind still… “You must let go of the past, including successes and failures, in order to fully seize the present and therefore shape your future-all in Christ.”
I feel so unprepared yet so ready.
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