Pressing Toward The GOAL!

I want to know Christ and the power of His Resurrection

And the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings,

Becoming like Him in His death, and so, some how,

To attain to the Resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained all this,

Or have already been made perfect,

But I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Brothers, I do not consider my self yet to have taken hold of it.

But one thing I do:

Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

I press on toward the GOAL to win the PRIZE

For which God has called me Heavenward in Christ Jesus.

All of us who are mature should take such a view of things.

And if on some point you think differently,

That too God will make clear to you.

Join with others in following my example, brothers,

And take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you.

For as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears,

MANY live as ENEMIES of the CROSS.

Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach,

And their glory is in their shame.

Their mind is on earthly things.

But our citizenship is in Heaven.

And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Who, by the power that enables Him

To bring everything under His control,

WILL TRANSFORM our lowly bodies

So that they will be like His Glorious Body. (Philippians 3:10-21)

The desire express here by the apostle Paul should be our desire:

To know Christ and the power of His Resurrection

And the fellowship of sharing His sufferings.

To attain the Resurrection from the dead.

Whether we are living or not, at the return of Christ Jesus,

We will be resurrected from the dead.

Today, everything around us is dead, save those who belong to Christ.

As with the apostle Paul, none of us has yet attained this Resurrection.

None of us has yet been made Perfect.

But we PRESS on

To take a hold of the reason Christ Jesus took a hold of us;

FORGETTING EVERYTHING BEHIND!

We strain toward that which lies ahead;

The GOAL, the PRIZE, Eternal LIFE in Christ Jesus!

We will not be among those who are ENEMIES OF THE CROSS.

Whose god is their stomach. Whose glory is their shame.

Whose mind is on earthly things.

Our CITIZENSHIP is in HEAVEN!

And we eagerly await our Savior, Christ Jesus from there.

Who will then TRANSFORM our lowly bodies

Into that which is like His Glorious Body.

And we will forever be with the Lord.

For the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven,

With a loud command,

With the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God.

And the dead in Christ will rise first.

After that, we who are still alive and are left

Will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

And so we will be with the Lord forever.

Therefore encourage each other with these words.

(1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)

Today, the world is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)

America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.

Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!

Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!