The same is true in the church and in our spiritual lives. The great apostle realized his need to move ahead. Most things that stand still become stagnant. A reservoir of water that has no fresh water flowing into it and no water flowing out of it becomes stagnant. The Dead Sea has no outlet.
Water flows into it but none flows out.
The same is true with our lives. We must move ahead or we become stagnant and fail. The church must think about what it must do to move ahead. We must never be satisfied with the past, or believe that what we are doing in the present is all that we can or should do. To achieve God s purposes for our lives we must move forward to meet the challenges of the future.