I press.

I press
Past the temporary
Past the moments
Of frustration
Weakness
Anger
Confusion
I press
Beyond my comforts
Beyond the usual
Selfishness
and independence
Because I need God.
I need Him more than ever.
More and more
Do I struggle
With this life
Outside and inward.
And so I press
I press towards the One
Who can save me
And love me,
Giving me eternal life.
And that means more
Than everything I press past!



Phillipians 3:8-14

⁸ More than that, I count all things to be loss ^[a]in view of the surpassing value of ^[b]knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, ^[c]for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, ¹⁰ that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and ^[d]the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; ^11 [e]in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

 ¹² Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on ^[f]so that I may lay hold of that^[g]for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.