Knowing Christ Jesus My Lord
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
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
Our belief in God is not based on I, it is based on He. We know
that we are forgiven by grace, and that grace does not come from us, it comes
from God.
Have you embraced the self-sacrificing grace of Jesus Christ?
We are saved not by what we do but by
trusting what Christ has done.
Our Daily Bread – November 13, 2008