IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012
THE HIGH CALLING
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Phillipians 3:14
Why is this calling high? It is high because it is like God--Holy. No common thing can attain unto it. It is separate, apart, sanctified. It is peculiar, spiritual, not discerned my the brute or natural man. It is heavenly, above and super-natural. And because it is high and holy, while we are in this flesh we must press into it, press toward it. Like a runner who knows only one will get the prize, we must be disciplined:"forgetting those things that are behind, and reachng forth to those things that are before" (Philipians 3:13). Like Jacob's ladder, we are climbing higher and higher. We must keep going forward and upward.
Today, let us press toward the mark for the prize of our high calling.
