Phil. 3:12, ”Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Zech. 4: 14 Then he said, “These are the sons of fresh oil who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth.”
Joel 1: 10 “The field is ruined,
The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil fails.”
As Christians we are sons and daughters of fresh oil. We can only be sustained in our Christian life by fresh oil, not the oil of the past. We must therefore always be pressing in for the “more.” The journey in Christ is never stagnant. The Holy Spirit is always calling us “further up and further in.” Transformation is not a past encounter but a constant present tense working reality. The Lord Jesus, by the Holy Spirit, is continually calling us to rise up and come away with Him to “newness.” In the book of the Revelation 21:5, it says that Jesus is making all things new. That literally is saying that He is always, constantly, making all things new. There is always fresh oil to experience and to be filled with. If fresh oil doesn’t characterize your Christian life, then something is wrong. If His riches are truly unfathomable, then the adventure and the encounters should be endless and ever new. Doesn’t the scripture say that His mercies are new every morning. The wonders of hope keep me passionately pursuing. The idea of “hope,” means there is something else out there to be experienced that I haven’t yet experienced in Him. The truth that there is yet something unspeakably wonderful “just around the corner” propels me forward toward the “corner,” at such speed that I don’t have time to be paralyzed by any painful debris around to me.