As believers in Christ who have the life of God in their spirit, we need to pursue growth and maturity in the life of Christ until we arrive at a full-grown man, the church as the Body of Christ growing into a mature man. None of us can say that we have already arrived […]
Not Dwelling on our Past but Seeking to Gain Christ Today even in our Sufferings
May we be those who do not dwell on our past but seek to gain Christ today, even in our sufferings! There’s a great contrast between the way Job and Paul reacted to suffering; Job was perplexed and disturbed, even cursing the day of his birth, while Paul never complained but rather took the death […]
Hear and see, forget and stretch forward to gain Christ now: the King will desire your beauty!
Psalm 45 is a psalm about Christ – praising Christ as the King. In this psalm we see a direct praise of Christ as the King and also an indirect praise of Christ by the psalmist praising the queen (the wife of the king), the daughters of the kings, and the sons of the king(the overcoming saints in the church). As a human being, a man needs a wife and children to be complete; in the same way, Christ is not a bachelor – He is the King with the queen and all the children! To praise Christ in a complete way, we must say something about Himself, about His queen, and about His children. Christ’s glory is seen in Christ Himself in the Gospels, in the church in the Epistles, and in the overcomers in Revelation. Praise the Lord for Christ, the church, and the overcoming saints!
forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to what is before
“I do not account of myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do: Forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I pursue toward the goal” (Philippians 3:12-14a). A recent reading of this set of verses led to some inner searching during some personal morning time […]