Press Forward! Never Relax!

Philippians 3:15

"Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded:

 and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded,

 God shall reveal even this unto you."

        There is no doubt that Paul is here speaking to the people that believed; that the Gospel frees Christians from obedience to any law, whether scriptural, civil, or moral law. They were those who denied that there was any law at all in the Christian life. They declared that they were within the grace of God and that, therefore, it did not matter what they did; God would forgive. No further discipline and no further effort were necessary. The sad thing is there is still people believing that way today! Paul is insisting that to the end of the day the Christian life is the life of an athlete looking toward the goal in front; "his goal in life"

       Let's get real here, "Anyone who has come to be mature in the faith and knows what Christianity is must recognize the discipline and the effort and the agony of the Christian life."  He may perhaps think differently, but, if he is an honest man, God will make it plain to him that he must never relax his effort or lower his standards; "but must press towards the goal, until the end."

        Amen!!

"WHAT'S YOUR GOAL" 

Reading: ( Phil. 3:12-21

May God Bless You

And Your Families

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry