“As long as we’re alive, the journey toward Jesus is never finished—we awaken and need purging and get illumined and experience oneness and need awakening all over again someplace else. …
But what we are moving toward, in our coming and our going, in the strange, spiraling, three-steps-forward, two-steps-backward pilgrimage, is something so transcendently great that it almost makes us blush to say the words.
Union with God.”
—John Ortberg in “Eternity is Now in Session”
My prayer this week: Heavenly Father, let me run with perseverance the race that you have set before me, striving forward — even in the hard times — until I’ve reached the glorious prize of eternity with you.
