Good Morning Friends,
“Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It
is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a
safeguard for you. Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators
of the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the
Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the
flesh – though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If anyone else thinks
he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people
of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law,
a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic
righteousness, faultless. But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for
the sake of Christ.” (Philippians 3:1-7)
Some of us have a lot to be proud of: raised in
an elder’s home; a family filled with ministers and missionaries; dedicated to
the Lord early in life; a whole string of perfect attendance pins from Sunday
School; many choice passages of Scripture committed to memory.
You can add your own list of religious
accomplishments to the one I’ve started. Perhaps your list looks pretty good! Paul’s
did. In fact, I’m confident that his list looked at lot better than yours. If
there was a religious accomplish available, he had already added it to his
list.
But then he found out something startling. It
happened in a flash of light on the road to Damascus and was confirmed through
the following years. His list didn’t make any difference! Not to God! And it
came to mean nothing to him, too.
Paul put his list of religious accomplishments
on one side of a scale and Jesus Christ on the other side. The scale tipped
immediately and totally toward Jesus!
Which side of the scale do you hang on to? Which
side of the scale do you rejoice in? There’s only one side really worth
anything! Rejoice in Him!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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