Text:
Philippians 3:7-11 (HCSB)
7 But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ.
8 More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ
9 and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law, but one that is through faith in Christ—the righteousness from God based on faith.
10 ?My goal? is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
11 assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead.
Observation:
In today’s focal passage the Apostle Paul looks back at his life. He considered what he had given up from his past in order to be wholly devoted to Christ.
Paul was willing to cut the ties with his past, and be devoted to Christ in the present, and the future. Notice how decisive he was in being willing to leave the past in the past.
Philippians 3:8-9 (NLT)
8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ
9 and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith.
Prayer:
Father, I am so grateful for the life that I have from knowing Christ, and Him being in me, and I in Him.
Father, I pray for a growing faith for myself, and for all of Your beloved children. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
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Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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