In your Christian life, you get discouraged with your spiritual progress. You try as hard as you can, but failure seems right around each corner. As a result, your faith waivers and your walk with the Lord suffers. This cycle repeats more often than you would like.
Let’s put a stop to that repeating cycle. Action must be taken for change to occur. A German proverb gives sound advice: “The main thing is that the main thing always remains the main thing.” In other words, do not get off course. Your desire to live for Christ has to remain your main focus. Setbacks may occur, but you can get right back on track again. Don’t let Satan make you feel inferior or defeated when you stray off course. One of Satan’s primary tactics is to make the servant of God feel defeated. Don’t let him do it! Confess to Jesus that you have fallen off course (1 John 1:9), then pick yourself up and live for Christ again.
Paul is the epitome of what it takes to be a great Christian. But he did not always do the things he knew he should do either. Scripture through Paul’s pen gives the following command on keeping the course: “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” (Phil. 3:13). This verse says that you have not arrived yet. I have some news for you; you will not reach perfection this side of heaven. That does not mean that you should stop trying. Like the verse says, “forgetting what lies behind.” Put past failures where they belong; they belong in the past. Next, the verse mandates your “reaching forward to what lies ahead.” Push on to accomplish what Christ directs you to do.
Yep, do not lose sight of your main thing that you want to accomplish. After that, just put all your energy into accomplishing it.
