Pressing On

Weariness drives the opening: "I'm so tired of false comfort," "I'm so tired of second best." Michael Ketterer, with Will Reagan featured on the recording, answers by calling on the "Bread of life" and asking, "I want to feed on Your body / And find the only true life that exists." The verse then gives up the old life outright: "Everything I've ever known, I lay it down before You, Lord."

A morning, noon and night rhythm follows in "I want to choose You in the morning / I want to choose You in the day," and the plea "come and capture me again" admits that devotion needs renewing. The long refrain, "I'm pressing on, I'm moving on / I've made up my mind, You're what I want," reads like a decision made and repeated until it sticks.

Later lines add the cost: "We're letting go our rights," "Stepping out of fear / Out into the light," and the paradox "Sometimes we got to let go... To hold on." John 6:35 supplies the Bread of Life image, and Philippians 3:13-14 gives the forward-straining language of pressing on.