The High Calling

Your tuned in to His light, your path with Pastor Rodholler Sr. Today's devotional is

titled, The High Calling, drawing from Philippians chapter 3 and verse 13, Pastor Holler will

show us how, even in the midst of all he endured, Paul's words overflow with hope. Paul urged

us to let go of our past and strive for the future God has set before us, and now here's

Pastor Holler. Philippians chapter 3 verse 13, brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended,

but there's one thing I do for getting those things which are behind and reaching forth

under those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the

High Calling of God in Christ Jesus. This passage is one of many of the wonderful words of

comfort that Paul has penned, but his teachings are more than just his writings. His life told

of the truths and the goodness of God. He wrote this from a prison cell. In that prison

cell of long ago, Paul wrote to comfort believers as they served the Lord. Believers cannot

say to Paul that he does not understand trials. Paul suffered many things for the Lord. In

addition to a prison cell, he had other hardships, note 2 Corinthians chapter 11 verses 24

through 27. Of the Jews five times received I 40 stripes, save one. Thrice was I beaten with

rods. Once I was stoned. Thrice, I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I have been in the

deep. In journeyings often. In perils of waters. In perils of robbers. In perils by my

own countrymen. In perils by the heathen. In perils in the city. In perils in the wilderness.

In perils in the sea. In perils among false brethren. In weariness and painfulness. In watching

often. In hunger and thirst. In fasting often. In cold and nakedness. And this man who suffered

so much. Tells us. To keep on keeping on for the Lord. He admonishes us. To forget the past.

As humans this can be difficult. There are some things we cannot forget. But we must not let

the past hinder our future. We must remember that God chooses to not remember our past.

Hebrews chapter 10 verse 17. And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

God wants us to look to the future. He has worked for us to do. There are much better things to do

than did well on the past. This passage sounds like an athlete in a competition. He is to

strain towards the goal. He is to be focused on the goal. The believer's goal is the prize of

the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. The believer is to strain and reach for his calling in

Jesus Christ. He is to recognize that he has a calling from God and that is to be obtained.

He is to recognize it and he is to fulfill it. You've just heard Pastor Holler's devotional

the high calling. Today we've been reminded that our past need not to find our future. Paul who

endured beatings, prison and shipwrecks. Tells us to keep pressing on. To reach for the calling God

has placed before us. When we confess our sins. God chooses to remember them no more. He calls us

to focus on what he has ahead. Let's not let yesterday's failures hold us back from tomorrow's

purpose. God has a high calling for you. Will you press on toward it? Be sure to listen in tomorrow

for another of Pastor Holler's devotional's.