Today Denise and I say goodbye to Beautiful Barcelona and 1/2 of our “world tour” is complete and now head to the cruise part of our Journey! As sad as it is to I’m reminded to “press in and on” in Christ as Philippians 3:13 changes our mindset! You may not think of yourself as competitive but I believe we all have some of this in us and as such ought to all desire to be “winning Christians” as we long to fulfill that for which we have been called. What I love about this passage is the detailed process in which Paul speaks about the day to day way to lose your religion. This “pressing on” of leaving behind religion has according to verse 14 a “prize” attached to it called the “upward call of God in Christ Jesus”.
Did you notice that the prize wasn’t at the end of the journey, as Paul says that the prize is the journey? Oh saint’s what a great revelation this is to us that the prize is the call itself and not the benefits that come from the call. The prize isn’t heaven, the prize is the journey with Jesus that will never end! That means that we don’t have to wait to start enjoying the prize. We can start enjoying the prize today and each day after.
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