Philippians 3:12-21 - Reaching Forward To God's Goal

¹² Not that I have already attained this or am already perfect, but I press forward to appropriate it, because I have been appropriated myself by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me, ¹⁴ to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ For all those of our number who are mature, this must be the point of view; God will reveal that to any of you who look at things differently. ¹⁶ Only, we must let our steps be guided by such truth as we have attained. ¹⁷ Copy me, brothers, one and all of you, and notice those who live by the example you get from me. ¹⁸ For many ??as I have often told you and tell you now with tears ??many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹ Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind! ²⁰ But we are a colony of heaven, and we wait for the Saviour who comes from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who will transform the body that belongs to our low estate till it resembles the body of his Glory, by the same power that enables him to make everything subject to himself.