I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection! But I keep working toward that day when I will finally be all that Christ Jesus saved me for and wants me to be. No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven. (Philippians 3:12-14)

    Life in the Spirit will call us to move on. There will be times when we’ll have to give up the pursuit of something we desire but don’t ever seem to attain — a spiritual gift, a specific job, a ministry, a relationship. It doesn’t mean the search wasn’t worth while, it simply means that it’s time to move on.

Life is about movement.

    As we grow both physically and spiritually there will be things we’ll need to keep and others we’ll need to discard — a hobby, an understanding of a Biblical teaching, a friendship, an outdated church activity. It doesn’t mean the possession of those items we discard wasn’t valuable, it just means we have to move on.

    Life is about movement. God is too. Each day we have a new perspective, and possibly a different directive. Knowing this fact of life will help us face each with new hope of developing in our world and in our relationship with our God!

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. A time to search, and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep, and a time to throw away. (Ecclesiastes 3:1,6 NASB)

    Lord, help us to know the time for each and be able to move on. In Jesus name. Amen.

© 2002, Mark Waltenbaugh. Used by permission. From The Online Devotional mailing list. To join, send an email to david@yourchurchcangrow.com with the subject "SUBSCRIBE TO DEVO."

Title: "Moving On"
Author: Mark Waltenbaugh
Publication Date: June 1, 2002

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