January 21-23, 2011

Daily Verse

I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

Phil 3:14

Daily Devotional

Press on

As medical students, we know what it means to press on. We have tests. We have night rounds. We are sometimes on call. There are many moments where our bodies want to quit, but our minds refuse to give in. Needless to say, we have a drive that’s in satiable and it is what helps us to perform.

Therin, lies the challenge.  We are usually so consumed by what we do we rarely take the opportunity to pour that drive into something else.  We need to learn to press on in other areas of our lives.  The apostle Paul said, “I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us..” We must in our lives ask God for the ability to press on for the prize God has waiting for us.

What is our prize? We must not forget that our life is not one that will be just here on the earth, but that we are citizens of heaven. One day we will be united with God. What a joyous day that will be! So in everything we do we must not forget the prize and the hope we have in Christ Jesus.  We must continue to press on to the prize.