Caleb Ziamba
December 23, 2020
This entry is part [part not set] of 2576 in the series Daily Words for the Christian Life
But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
— Philippians 3:13b-14 ESV
The Greek word for “goal” here is skopos, which “has the two senses of ‘overseer’ and ‘mark’ at which one shoots” (Kittel, p. 1047). The mark at which we aim is Christ, and the One who is overseeing our pursuit toward that goal is also Christ.
Excerpted from Philippians: That I May Gain Christ by Titus Chu, p. 220