Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
13 I reckon not myself to have as yet apprehended He does not here call in question the certainty of his salvation, as though he were still in suspense, but repeats what he had said before — that he still aimed at making farther progress, because he had not yet attained the end of his calling.
Christ is my righteousness, and I stake everything on winning Him, as a runner strains for the prize, as a fugitive reaches the city of refuge. My own works amount to nothing; only His perfect righteousness, received by faith, can make me safe before God's judgment.
AI summary
Commenting on Philippians 3:9-14
I press toward the mark,.... The allusion is to the white line, or mark, which the runners in the Olympic games made up to, and to which he that came first received the prize; and by which the apostle intends the Lord Jesus Christ, who is "the scope", or "mark", of all the thoughts, purposes, and counsels of God, to which they all aim, and...