Thursday, April 11, 2013

NOT ALREADY 'SAVED', A WORK IN PROGRESS


I AM NOT ALREADY "SAVED," AS MANY FELLOW-CHRISTIANS HAVE PROFESSED TO BE. I AM VERY MUCH A WORK IN PROGRESS. PRAISE GOD!

I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 3:10-14