Where Are You Going Today?

Philippians 3:7-11 (King James Version)

7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

Pray: Heavenly Father, I what to know you more! More and More and More of you is what I want inside of my head.  The more of your words that are within me, the more of you will leak out of me.  So Father as I study your book this morning please give me wisdom and understanding and then help me to understand how to apply your knowledge to my everyday life and to the circumstances I find myself in thru out the day.  I love you Daddy

 Say: What does the scripture say, loss is gain!  And I understand this!  But do you?  There is a verse in the Bible about a camel being able to go thru the eye of a needle.  I think it is in Proverbs, but I am checking so I can direct you to the correct pages, how about that, it is in Matthew 19:24, and it is in Mark, and in Luke (not Proverbs) And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.  Now consider this. If you have a million dollars, and every day you gave away a few dollars, but at the end of the day you would still be going home to your lovely and comfortable home, and the next day you went out and purposefully gave away some more of your money.  And you kept on doing this.  It would take quite a bit of time.  Now consider that you have only a thousand dollars, and maybe not a quite so comfortable home.  And yet, you where doing the same thing as the millionaire....who would get to empty sooner?  Who wouldn't  mind quite as much?  Perhaps I am being prejudice? I actually think that I am being realistic!  And so realistically speaking I believe that to have complete loss for the sake of gaining the complete reality of living for Christ is worth far more than millions.  In my Bible the sub headings are as follows:

          Warning Against Confidence In the Flesh, verses 1-9
                Exhortation to Know Christ, verses 10-16
                      Warning Against Living For the Flesh, verses 17-21

Means: what does this mean.....well I sort of covered this in the "say" section, but I am going to expound a bit more.  Isn't God amazing?  When I sit down to read His words and instructions, I am blown away sometimes by what I would call "Holy Ghost Setup!"  I read something and boom, it happens in a flash, I will just have a sudden understanding.  I know I may seem a bit scattered this morning, but I promise there will be a completeness to what I am trying to get at....Paul was a missionary.  And he was a missionary that gave up everything to follow Christ.  We have a family at our church, that has this year, sold their home, quit their jobs, and gone to Africa to serve our Lord.  This is what this reading this morning is saying.  God told them He wanted them to serve Him, and that is what they are doing!  Would it be more difficult for Carlos Slim Helu and family?  With a net worth of $73 billion, or how about Bill Gates at $67 billion?  Now I really don't know that much about either one of theses people, and they may be philanthropist......I don't know.  But could they give away everything and follow Christ?  That is a question only they could answer.

Apply: a portion of Joshua 24: 15 (end) but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.  My husband and I may not be the couple who sell everything ad move to Africa, but we can be facilitators, helpers if you would.  But please don't think that we wouldn't go, we are actually positioning ourselves to be able to help in anyway that we can.  We are doing what needs to be done, so that we are available for whatever God calls us to do.  As far as applying this to today....we all have to work towards the goals that we feel have been placed in front of us by our Father, and that is where Mr Tim and I are at just this minute.   We are working on being the gospel to those people that God puts in our ways.  And what an amazing journey!

How is your journey today?