Have you ever worked hard trying to achieve something that took an extreme amount of effort and fighting spirit to accomplish? How did you feel when your achievement was successful? How about if it wasn’t successful or what you thought you would achieve or feel after this feat?
Many of us have plowed our all into some activitiy or event to come out on the other side with an odd feeling or certainly a feeling that was unexpected. I guess the Whois what should we feel like in those circumstances? What was the prize we were looking for?
The Apostle Paul had a goal. He pursued a prize. He worked tirelessly for the pinnacle moment. In Philippians 3: 7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. [8] What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ [9] and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. [10] I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, [11] and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. [12] Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. [13] Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, [,14] I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
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