christian quotes on 'pressing the reset button'

Along the way, we will partake of the prize that comes with that goal. This is our reply to God's heavenly call to seek Him, to know Him. We are to press toward that goal, exerting all of the spiritual strength and energy that God's grace supplies. 'I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.' The goal is to get to know the Lord better. God wants us to move forward, looking upward. Today, we need to look forward to the next work of grace that He wants to bring forth as we walk on with Him.

God's grace can cover pastįailures and pains.

Paul gives us heavenly insight concerning how to deal with the past: ' forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.' Things of the past need not dominate our present. Past blessings distract them from seeking the Lord's fresh work in their lives now. Past successes give false assurance that things must go well today. Wrongs done to them in the past tempt them to self-pity or bitterness. Failures of the past plague them with condemnation. Many Christians focus their attention on their past. One of the significant issues that keeps believers in Christ from knowing the Lord better is their past. Consequently, he had one great goal that directed his life and service: ' one thing I do.' HisĪll-consuming passion was to get to know the Lord more and more: 'that I may know Him' ( Philippians 3:10).

Yet, he admits that he had not ' fully arrived.' He confesses that he did not know the Lord so completely that his entire life was a demonstration of resurrection living. 'Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended.' When these words were written, Paul had been walking with the Lord for 25 to 30 years. Here we see evidence of the godly humility that had developed in the Apostle Paul through the years. 'God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble' ( James 4:6). We have noted that humility is one of the relational realities that God wants to develop in our lives so we can live daily by the grace of God. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Christian quotes on 'pressing the reset button'