I Press On
As we enter 2019, Paul’s teaching in Philippians 3 can help us re-set our thinking for the new year. “But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Phi 3:13b-14, ESV). Paul was fond of using word-pictures from athletics to illustrate various aspects of the Christian life, and that seems to be what he is doing here. Like a well-trained athlete, Paul urges us to forget what......