I’ve just been back to my home town. Going back inevitably raises memories some good and some bad. One of the challenges we do face in the Christian Life is going back over things we do not need to. We need to be able to come to a point where we place things which hold us back or haunt our minds at the foot of the cross and let go. Paul understood that he wasn’t perfect, far from it but nevertheless he pressed on toward the goal, he desired to comprehend and lay hold of what God desired and wanted for him.
Hopefully the words of this poem will be of value.
Philippians 3 vs. 12-14 – Pressing On Toward The Goal
Not that I have already attained or am already perfected, but I press on
That I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has laid hold for me
I know that I have much to learn, I need to sit at the feet of God’s Son
To comprehend what it is he has laid hold for me, to understand and see
I need to seek the Lord with all I am, and in life make him number one
For he is who I seek, I am not perfect, far from it, I can’t like him sinless be
Yet with his helper the Spirit I can seek to do his will, to in him press on
Looking to Christ seeking his face, holding in to all he has planned for me
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do
Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward
There is so much more I need to understand, at times life’s a zoo
It becomes so busy, that I lose sight of God time with him goes overboard
I am far from perfect, yet God loves me unconditionally even when I feel blue
He calls me to be one with him, to seek his face, and to move forward
Forgetting those things which are behind, seeking healing, pushing thru
For he knows his plans for me, his voice saying Christian soldier onward!
To those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal
Of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
I desire to march forward in time with him, with all my soul
For I have the hope that one day in heaven I’ll be with Jesus
Until that day I desire to serve and grow in him whatever the role
Nothing the world can offer compares to being one with Jesus
Mark Maffey, January 2006
(NKJV)