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Are you pressing toward the mark, or just pressing?

“EVERYBODY ENDS UP somewhere in life…

A few people end up somewhere on purpose.”1

The quote reminds me of the words of Paul to the saints at Philippi: “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:14).  Paul had a mark toward which he was running.  Of course, that mark was heaven.

THOUGHT: What about you?  Are you pressing toward the mark, or just pressing?  (Wade Webster)

“Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; 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).

1/ Andy Stanley, Visioneering, p. 8

Mike Benson