The document discusses spiritual discipline and focusing on spiritual growth. It asks what the reader wants to do most spiritually, noting they should forget past mistakes and focus on spiritual goals ahead. It acknowledges that people can lose focus, then asks what might be stopping the reader from spiritual growth. It suggests finding and acting on spiritual excellence through meditation, as opposed to dwelling on past failures or distractions from spiritual progress.

1. Spiritual Discipline

2. Question #1
What is the one thing you want to
do most spiritually?

3. Question #1
“This one thing I do…”

4. Question #1
“But one thing I do: forgetting
what lies behind and straining
forward to what lies ahead.”
(Philippians 4.13)

5. Problem #1
Sometimes we are not focused.
Colossians 3.2
Hebrews 2.9
Hebrews 12.2

6. Question #2
What is stopping you?

7. Problem #2
We forget to add the good.
“I will return to the house from
which I came.”
(Luke 11.24)

8. Solution
We must find the excellent.
“…so that you may approve what
is excellent...”
(Philippians 1.10)

9. Solution
We must act on the excellent.
“Be doers of the word, and not
hearers only...”
(James 1.22)

10. Solution
We meditate on the excellent.
“…think on these things...”
(Philippians 4.8)