NEW CONSCIOUSNESS

Baca: Philippians 3:1-16

But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ (Philippians 3:7-8)

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Bacaan tahunan: Exodus 16-18

Each person must have had something to be proud: wealth, education, experience, connections, status, and so forth. Things that should be secondary needs it a bit like giving identity to us. If not careful, who we will be determined by what there is and inherent in us. It's dangerous.

Paul, in the course of his life, had such a transforming experience that all sorts of great secondary needs in the past, present to him is rubbish. The original language used by Paul is: "dirt". The cause of the change were: knowledge of Christ (verse 8). However, Paul was still aware that the experience is the experience of grace, not the experience to control God. He remained conscious of the imperfections: "Not as though I have already obtained it or have been perfect ... I'm chasing him, in case I can also catch it ..." (verse 12). His experience with God does not make any arrogant cocky. Not because he had to catch Christ, but rather he had been arrested Christ. Paul also did not want to jail by a great spiritual experience of the past. Her spiritual life means walking forward up the present into the future.

What about us? Are we just dissolve in our pride in the past? Or do we fully realize that we must always strive, in the grace of God, to more and more familiar with him? May the example of the apostle Paul put the thirst and longing in our hearts to live more and love the Lord. - DKL

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What is more valuable in this life than the opportunity to know Him more and more day after day?

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