My prayer for you for today is that you will realise the
infinite value of knowing Jesus Christ, and that you will discard everything else
to become one with Him, in Jesus name.
Philippians
3:8-9
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 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.
Everything else. In our daily lives we are constantly
overwhelmed by books and ideas by people how to live a good life. There are
writers with specific steps that you must follow on achieving greatness and
then there are those considered great or successful that tells the story of
their lives to teach you from their own experience how to achieve a similar
greatness as they did or rather a similar success. I guess it is good to follow
advice from people that went through a similar experience and learn from their
mistakes, yet I always thought that making mistakes is part of learning and
growing. It is in our own imperfections that we will long for a perfect example
in Jesus Christ. I assume in Paul’s day there were many that saw themselves as
the best in knowledge and obviously wanted their ways known to all. Paul says it so nicely: “everything else is
worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord”
and more so he says that he discarded everything else so that he could gain
Christ and become one with Him.
My dear friend, take a moment and quiet out the world and
all its noise makers and seek Jesus so that you can strive to become one with
Him. Above all power and above all success, fame and fortune is God. Do not
seek what this world has to offer, but seek the gift of Jesus Christ with an unquenchable
thirst to know Him and become one with
Him so that you can become righteous through your faith in Jesus Christ,
because God's way of making us right with
himself depends on faith.
Have an awesome day, as you become more and more like
Jesus.
Cheers