In Phil. 3:we see the Christian as a racer, "forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before" he presses toward the mark. All is motion; we are almost carried along in the current as we read the chapter. In the fourth chapter we see him standing fast. Here stability is. the thought, as opposed to the fickleness so common. Each of these characteristics should be found in God's people :ever pressing on, yet ever standing firm.