Title: How Lofty Are Your Goals?
Text:
Philippians 3:10-12 (HCSB)
10 ⌊My goal⌋ is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
11 assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead.
12 Not that I have already reached ⌊the goal⌋ or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Observation:
One of the things that I heard or read many years ago was this, "God does not have any grandchildren". Each of us needs to know God for ourselves. This song is bubbling up within my soul as I sing these words, and make it my prayer.
"1 Not my brother, nor my sister,
but it's me, O Lord,
All:
standing in the need of prayer;"
O, that all of God's children would have the lofty goal expressed by the Apostle Paul in our focal passage for today.
O, that we would each know God for ourselves, and know the power of God for ourselves; the power that raised our Lord Jesus from the grave.
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be Your name. Father, I pray that each of the readers and hearers of this word may know You, and know Your power in their lives. Father, I pray that each of us will be taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Father, draw us closer to You, and I pray each of us would take the verse from Jude, and make it our personal prayer.
Jude 1:24-25 (HCSB)
24 Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless and with great joy,
25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time, now and forever. Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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