By Oke Chinye
Read: Philippians 3:12-16
Meditation verse:
“I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:14).
The terms ‘press forward’ and ‘struggle’ require you to try to accomplish something. However, there is a fundamental difference. Pressing forward entails doing something continually in a determined way and getting ahead in the process. Struggling on the other hand entails striving to achieve something in the face of difficulty or resistance, without necessarily getting ahead.
The Christian life is not one that is devoid of challenges. Jesus said to His disciples: “…In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). On the cross, Jesus obtained the victory for you. At salvation, your struggles became a ‘pressing forward’. If you have trusted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, you are no longer living a life of ‘struggles’. In essence, irrespective of what life throws at you, you will continue to progress and move forward.
As you live your life daily, walk in the consciousness of this truth. Instead of seeing your challenges as setbacks, see them as opportunities for you to grow and mature in faith. See adversity as steppingstones to greater heights.
“Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18).
IN HIS PRESENCE is written by Dcns Oke Chinye, Founder of The Rock Teaching Ministry (TRTM).
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