Always Advancing But Never Arriving

I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 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 3:12-14

The Christian who seeks to know Christ never arrives down here but is always arriving. He never fully apprehends but every day he keeps on apprehending. He knows the difference between obtaining and attaining. He does not confuse the end of the chapter with the end of the book. Each experience is not a stopping place but a stepping stone on the way from the good to the best. He never knows Christ completely, but every day he seeks to know Him better. Paul wrote in Philippians 3:10, “That I may know him,” 30 years after he first met Christ on the road to Damascus. He realized he still did not know Christ as intimately as he would like.

The entire Christian experience is getting better acquainted with Jesus. Do you know Him better today than you did yesterday? The only way to get to know Him better is to spend time in fellowship with Him in His Word and on your knees.