I Press Toward The Mark!

I was reflecting on St.Paul's life and was reading Philippians 3. It always amazes me how fast his transition was after The Lord put him on the ground on the Damascus road. After spending 15 years with Christ and now being hounded himself for Christ's sake, he writes this wonderful letter to the Philippians Christians. My favorite verses are in chapter 3. His love for Christ is so apparent in this chapter.
Paul counts all his worldly possessions as loss and as dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus his Lord. He doesn't want his own righteousness, only that which is through the faith in Christ. Verse 10 That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His suffering, being made conformable unto His death. Verse 14 says I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. That means we are to die to ourselves and be as Christ is. We are to get out of the way so The Holy Spirit can work through us to guide others to His Cross and thus find our lives in Him at the same time. This mark is so different than the one the anti-christ will require in our right hands and forhead. For it is the mark in our hearts and minds, bearing the very image of Christ.
We also see in verses 17-21 that we are to mark those who walk contrary to Christ and His Gospel, who are the enemies of His Cross, whose god is their bellies, and whose glory is their shame, who mind earthly things.
There is no more urgent message than to die to ourselves and be conformed to His Image, Romans 8:29. Life can ONLY spring out of crucifixion, there is no resurrection without death, John 12: 24-26 and John 3:30. Beloved, we MUST DIE TO OURSELVES!!!
Through out the entire New Testament there is this theme over and over again. It is a theme so important that He must repeat it. For you see that the flesh of man is so strong and evil that He must make it perfectly clear. He destroyed the earth with a flood because of man's evil ways and soon He will destroy it by fire. We must come to Him, who gave His blood for the remission of sin. His blood is The ONLY Thing that has the power to put an end to our sinful ways.
So at this wonderful season, please remember the reason.

Reflections!

Last November I became ill and had to be hospitalized. They first thought I was having a heart attack, but it soon became apparent that there was nothing wrong with my heart. They still are not sure what happened. I have to go for further test to completely rule out my heart.
While I was in the hospital I had time to refect on people in my life and the way my life was going. I came to the conclusion that things for the most part are well. I also decided to let those I love know just how precious they are to me. Sometimes one needs to refect and take stock of ones life.
We Christians need to be so broken before The Lord that others will see and take note we have been with Christ, just as Moses was on the mount receiving The Ten Commandments. Our faces should show that we have been with Him.
Life is short and we need to spend as much time in His Presences as is humanly possible. We need to be able to tell of His Love to those that are without. We must be kind when others are not, no matter what because we reflect His image. We must Preach The word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned to fables. 11 Timothy 4:2-4
Beloved, we are in that time now. Soon we will be called upon to wittness as never before, that is why we need to be in His Word and know It backward and forward. We will be forced to hide soon, we won't be able to preach His Word.

Come To Christ, Come Today!

The horsemen are riding, can you hear them as they come? Or are you deaf as a post, unconcerned? Do you say, oh this will pass everything will be as it once was? Where is the promise of His coming. 2 Peter 3:4
Do you hear Him laughing as man's time draws to an end.
Do you see the signs He said to look for? Are you filled with hope that He soon will be here?
Where are you oh man in this time of mankind, troubled and oh so blind?
Draw close to His Word and ask for His Grace, never look back as He will erase the shame of your sins from off your face.
Come now let us reason together, learn from Christ, learn from His Word.
Yes He is laughing at sins that have been and now never will be. For He is coming soon to set us all free.
Where are you Adam? Why do you hide? Could it be do to all of your pride?

It is time to look to Christ!!!! The party is over for man kinds sin.

Get into The Word and do it today
Do not put it off or delay
Ask for forgiveness for all of your sins
For soon persecution will begin.
You need to be in The Arms of Christ
For they are The Only Way to everlasting Life!