Stepping Toward the Future

[369 words] The new year will soon be upon us and I’m sure we are all individually making plans for our future. As we make steps toward completing our desires and expectations, there are some things to remember. The great apostle Paul can help us through his example in Philippians 3:12-14. As we step toward the future, we all need to remember that it needs to be… …a step forward. It is important that our plans and actions be steps of progress. Too many Christians do not plan for the future. They seem to live in the present or, even worse, in the past. It is important to plan and move forward. Paul recognized the need to be “forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead” (v.13). He did this by having a “goal” and “upward call” to reach toward (v.14). We should…