I have been considering my life in the light of true lordship (what ever that may look like) and am always surprised at my sense of entitlement and pride. Who exactly to I think I am???
The apostle Paul's words spoke to my wounded and prideful spirit this morning:
But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everthing a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I might gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ - the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings become like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do Forgetting what is behind and strainging toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Sigh, I have quite a long journey ahead of me.
Monday, February 04, 2008
Who exactly do I think I am?
Posted by Erica R at 1:46 PM
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Hi Erica - I have thought of you often these last few weeks. Maybe we can have a re-attempt to make a coffee date. I would like that.
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