I Want To Know Christ

Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord.

To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, and for you it is a safeguard.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh – even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh.

If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Philippians 3:1-11

None of the things we think are important in this life are really that important. Money, prestige all fit in, but those are things. The question is whether we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior. If we do, everything fits together. If we don’t, we will have made the choice to not be with Him when we die. It is our choice, both yours and mine.

There are people within your sphere of influence whose lives you can impact for God. He has placed them within your reach to be a witness to point them to Jesus.

Think of someone whom you can speak to about Jesus Christ and what He has done for you.

We have only one life on earth and that is short. If we have not worked for Christ that is as far as it goes. The only thing that matters for our eternal future is the work we have done for Jesus Christ, on this earth. That is what we will be judged on. Did we accept Him for who He is, the Son of God, the Son of Man, who resides in us through the Spirit?

Our Daily Bread – May 1, 2008