"..... I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me." Phil. 3:12

  I was considering this part of the verse and I think we are "laid hold of", or apprehended, to be saved from sin and to grow in fellowship with God and grow in purity and sanctification. But this isn't the end, and we can only go to so many Bible Studies, prayer and
praise times, and listen to so many sermons and read so many devotionals before we sense the need to get up and do that for which we are called.           

One commentary put it this way "A man away in the backwoods will spend a couple of years after he has purchased his acreage, felling and burning trees, and rooting out and destroying the weeds. But is that what he got the clearing for? That is only the preliminary to sowing the seed." 

 Without Christ our hearts are hard and scarcely know how to love; but Jesus saves us to share His love that is growing within us; it is our "talent, light, salt",  however it may display itself. Christ in us, the hope for ourselves and a lost world. We are laid hold of to shed the love of God to humanity in deeds, actions, associations and in personal sacrifices, starting in the home and reaching across the globe.