October 3, 2026 4:00 am
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.†(
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Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Following the mark. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do: forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians three thirteen through fourteen. Paul called his personal achievements as valuable as dung, rejecting his own righteousness.
Now he is focused on reaching the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. He is well aware that he has not already attained God's ultimate design for him, nor is he perfect in any sense of what he will become. But he intends to follow after and be apprehended of the Lord Jesus. To begin with, Paul knows that he must forget those things which are behind, not only his rather stellar reputation and achievements, but especially the awful conditions of being without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. Those terrible conditions were done away with when Paul and those of us who are twice born were created after God in righteousness and true holiness.
Now, having been apprehended of Christ and forgetting those things that were part of our old lives, we compress toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Like for an athlete, the prize is gained only by those who Win, not by those who run uncertainly. Thus, we cannot win if we have two masters. Nor can we please Him who has chosen us if we entangle ourselves with the affairs of this life. May God keep us focused on the prize.
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