On Your Mark!

"Man's chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy him forever" (Westminster Larger Catechism). How do you reach the mark, the goal set for you, the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3.14)? How do I not only end the race but win it and end it well? How do I not join the failures, the defeated millions, who never come to realise the potential that could be theirs in Christ? How do I capitalise on the grace God has invested in me (Matthew 25.14-30)? I want to be an overcomer I don't want to simply crawl unnoticed through the gates of heaven, I don't want to just make it. I want a great, an abundant entrance I want God to throw open wide the gates of his kingdom (2Peter 1.11) and welcome me with a 'well done ' Imagine a scene at Westminster Abbey: The monarch is about to arrive, there's the usual hubbub of noise, people chatting, moving, the folk of no great importance coming and going. But then the royal car arrives, the doors are thrown wide open, and one by one people stop talking, a great hush falls upon the place, and then just as the royal figure steps up to the entrance, as one all rise and a mighty crescendo, a fanfare of trumpets, fills the whole abbey. A great, a super, abundant entrance