I press toward the mark (the distant mark looked at, the goal or end one has in view) for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Php 3:14)
We probably all start out pretty good. It doesn't take us long after we become Christians to figure out That Jesus is the One we set out sights on, who we head for. It all seems pretty simple, progress is fairly constant, and our lives are becoming steady.
Then at some point, years down the road, it is not simple anymore. We have too many targets, too many marks we are heading for. At first we do not realize what the problem is, all we know is the joy is gone. Discouragement begins to haunt us, we don't seem to know what to do any more.
May I suggest that we may have gotten off track. We're trying to hit so many marks, that we can't even figure out how to hit One. Some marks we may have added could be the desire for other things. When this happens, the Word is choked and we become unfruitful, stale, discouraged, passive, and undirected. Some marks could be ministry, how we think others percieve us, or even church
I am not going to belabor this, after all, we have the Holy Spirit and can understand spiritual things. Since we have been raised with Christ. let us also set our heart and minds on things above and let nothing lead us astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
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