To Finishing Well You Need to “Let go” and “Press on”

To Finishing Well

You Need to

“Let go” and “Press on”

 

  

2015 is a new year. 

It is time to do some house cleaning.

Time to get rid of the stuff

that keeps us from a better life.

I am a saver –

I don’t have one junk drawer,

I have lots of them.

If I think I can use something in the future,

 I hang on to it.

As a result,

I don’t have any room

and no matter how hard I try,

 junk drawers never look good.

 I think all of us have

some junk drawers.

Things that we won’t let go of.

It is almost 2015

and I wonder if there are some things

you and I need to make room for.

Maybe it is spending more time in prayer

or getting a better understanding of God’s Word.

Maybe you need to get involved

in a small group of Christians

to help develop your spiritual growth.

Maybe it’s a healthier lifestyle,

financial freedom, or more family time.

You have probably wanted

these things for a while,

but you have to let go

of a junk drawer.

Most things we want are just out of reach

There are two ways to approach it…

Grow longer arms.

If I could only grow longer arms

I could have my cake and eat it, too.

Means we can’t grow longer arms,

we have to let go with one hand

so our other hand

can reach hold of the prize.

Maybe your junk drawer has

some sentimental attachment to it.

It could be a good memory,

or a bad memory…

 But it is taking up room

and keeping you from reaching out

and building a life of dreams.

What kept me from

my goal in 2014?

Am I ready to let it go

in order to reach the prize?

Scripture Reading

Philippians 3:12-14 NIV

12 Not that I have already obtained all this,

or have already been made perfect,

but I press on to take hold of that

for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

13 Brothers, 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.