God Is A Moving Target: Short Take

If our aim is the heavenly prize. That upward call that Paul spoke of and was pressing to reach in Philippians 3. Then we need to understand God is a moving target. It is not that He can’t be reached. It is just the moment we get close He calls us higher still. Pursuing Him is not passive but active. He will not allow us to stay in the same place to long.

We must press upward towards the kingdom of heaven. Pressing upward means we must leave this world behind. In fact our ability to move up and our letting go of the world move in proportion to each other. We can’t reach for the prize and reach for the world. We have to choose what we desire the most.

Once we make that choice. We have to make it again everyday. We either press for more of God, sit with what we have, or drink in this world. Only one of these, pressing for more of God moves us towards the heavenly prize.

It is obvious what reaching for the world will get us. What is not so obvious is what sitting with what we have will get us. We can pursue God and find Him. But once we find Him a great yet subtle danger is becoming satisfied and no longer pressing for more. Once we stop moving upward we are headed down. In reality there are only two destinations in the pursuit of the kingdom. Higher and lower. There is no neutral gear in the pursuit of God. Only drive and reverse.

I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. Philippians 3:4