“Keep doing what you’ve been doing.” These simple, yet profound words from my health coach remind me to stay the course after a journey of losing 120 pounds and regaining my health during 2021.

Philippians 3:16 has a similar but higher call to action for our spiritual health: "…let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.”

The journey to “press on” has a major obstacle, one we must all face. It is our past. We must be determined to press on and push forward. But we must also decide to give up looking back.

Whatever the journey is that God has for you in 2022, you can be sure it will take dedication, discipline and determination. Philippians 3:12 - 14 likens this journey to a race. The imagery in these verses tells us to reach forward, to press on, to attain the prize, to press toward the goal. We believers are “journeying on” in this Christian race.

“I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:14 NASB

Regardless of how we measure life, we are on a journey! For those of us that are Christ-followers, that journey has an important mark. When salvation occurred, the journey took on new meaning, new hope, new challenges and new objectives. It also gives us new adventures. And that is exactly what today is for Gina and me. Today begins a new adventure in ministry.