Does the title make you excited?
Who are you living for? What are you living for?
Philippians 3:12-14 – 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 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, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Sometimes we forget the obvious bible verses we have heard many of times growing up.
Genesis 19:26- 26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
It wasn’t like she was looking at the sun. She desired what God had destroyed even after He allowed her to be saved out of it. Forget what is behind and move forward toward the goal.
Luke 9:62 –62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
Looking back when we need to be looking forward. When we are pressing for the worldly goal and not the heavenly goal, we’re not heading in the right direction.
What you did for the Lord yesterday is part of the prize waiting for you later. What you did for your kingdom on this earth is paid in full. It’s lost forever.
You’re one day closer to eternity, how will you spend today?