There are always more

There are always more rungs of the ladder to climb

"But just as He who called you is holy — so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." 1 Peter 1:15-16

Every step of the heavenly way is uphill — and steep at that. Heavenly life always keeps above us, no matter how far we climb toward it. We never in this world, get to a point where we may regard ourselves as having reached life's goal, as, having attained the loftiest height within our reach — there are always more rungs of the ladder to climb .

The noblest life ever lived on earth, is but beginning its growth and attainment.

Mozart , just before his death, said, "Now I begin to see what might be done in music."

That is all which the saintliest man ever learns in this world about living — he just begins to see what might be done in living. It is a comfort to know that that really is the whole of our earthly mission — just to learn how to live , and that the true living is to be beyond this world.

"Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 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, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:12-14

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