Run the race
"Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:12-14)
A friend asked me why we must keep fighting, why this Christian life is so fraught with dangers. Isn't it tiring? Isn't it just easier to forget it and live without this burden of being a Christian, isn't it better to stop struggling?
I have read this verse in Philippians like so many times, but just the other day I discovered verse 12. "I press on to make it my own" not because I have to, not because He has chained me to Him, but "because Christ Jesus has made me his own". Because He gave all in order to make me His own, I shall keep running and not give up.
A friend asked me why we must keep fighting, why this Christian life is so fraught with dangers. Isn't it tiring? Isn't it just easier to forget it and live without this burden of being a Christian, isn't it better to stop struggling?
I have read this verse in Philippians like so many times, but just the other day I discovered verse 12. "I press on to make it my own" not because I have to, not because He has chained me to Him, but "because Christ Jesus has made me his own". Because He gave all in order to make me His own, I shall keep running and not give up.
posted by beloved at 10:15 AM
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