October 23, 2024
Daily Devotion:
"Press On"
Philippians 3:12-14
New Living Translation
12 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. 13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, [a] but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies
ahead, 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
We press on! That is the battle cry of our hearts as we day by day live our lives, not for our glory but His. We let go of the past, the pain, the heartbreak, and the disappointments. We let go of the weight that pulls us down – down into depression and down into despair – and instead we choose to live our lives in faith. We take God at His Word. In Christ we are a new creation. We have a new start and we choose to run. We run our race for God’s glory! We press into Him on the hard days
because now we do not run our races alone; Jesus has made us His own. May we rejoice in this truth and run our races for God’s glory!
