Laying hold of Christ
G od's will for your life ... Are you ever concerned with being sure you are fulfilling it? I think on this often, " What does He will for me today?" Not in the complete sense necessarily, but I wonder, "How will what I do today—my choice, effect the whole picture. I've been reading Philippians and in it I read these words by Paul, "...but I press on so that I may lay hold of that which also I was laid hold for by Christ Jesus." Then he goes on to say, "Breathern, I do not regard myself as having hold of it yet, but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal of the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." Many of us have problems with "laying hold of that which also we were laid hold for." Why? We have a problem with moving forward. Some of us get stuck, and even more of us get stuck in the past. Being stuck makes it hard for us ...