The Prize“But one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:13-14) Chances are, most of us know what it’s like to suffer from aches and pains, depression and disappointments but not too many of us know what to do about them. Instead of putting painful failures behind us, many of us focus on them until those failures become more real to us than the rich promises of God. We dwell on them until we become bogged down in the mud of pity, incapacitated by the fear that if we go on, we’ll fail again. Unlike Kevin Costner in No Way Out, if depression has put you into a spiritual tailspin, all you have to do to snap out of it is to get your eyes off the past and Back To The Future, a Jeremiah 29:11 future full of hope, the hope of glory that’s been guaranteed by God through the exceedingly great and precious promises in His Word. All you have to do is keep your eyes on The Prize, not the Nobel Prize that Paul Newman was after in the movie, but the prize of the high calling of God in Christ [the Anointed One and His Anointing] Jesus. This, however, won’t come easily for our mind is conditioned to focus on the past. Like an old dog that cannot learn any new tricks, our thoughts will gravitate toward the past every time we give them any slack. So grab your thoughts about the past along with your low rise jeans and don’t give them any slack. Purposely meditate on the Word of God and replace thoughts of the past with Bible promises about your glorious future, salvation and inheritance. Then, instead of being Missing In Action like Chuck Norris or a Widowmaker like Harrison Ford, you’ll become a Universal Soldier with more kick than Jean Claude Van Damme, a Rambo with more firepower than Sylvester Stallone, a Road Warrior with more gasoline than Mel Gibson, and a super conqueror that God created you to be. Copyright © 2002 Eddy Ministries. All rights reserved. Subscribe/Unsubscribe:
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