Day 4 : Interior Freedom
Reading Phil 3 : 7 - 16
The True Righteousness
7. But all those things that I might count as profit I now reckon as loss for Christ's sake.
8. Not only those things ; I reckon everything as complete loss for the sake of what is so much more valuable, the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have thrown everything away ; I consider it all as mere garbage, so that I may gain Christ
9. an be completely united with him. I no longer have a righteousness of my own, the kind that is gained by obeying the Law. I now have the righteousness that is given through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God and is based on faith.
10. All I want to know Christ and to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings and become like him in his death,
11. in the hope that I myself will be raised from death to life.
12. I do not claim that I have already succeeded or have already become perfect. I keep striving to win the prize for which Christ Jesus has already won me to himself.
13. Of course, my friends, I really do not think that I have already won it ; the one thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead.
14. So I run straight toward the goal in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above.
15. All of us who are spiritually mature should have this same attitude. But if some of you have a different attitude, God will make this clear to you.
16. However that may be, let us go forward according to the same rules we have followed until now.
Reflection
Those passage is like St Paul talking to my face literally. It's true that what I considered valuable last time is no longer valuable after I found the joy and love in my simple daily life.
What I am looking for such as fame, being admired are all emptiness. I never have satisfaction and fullness when I chase those vague goals.
But when I do everything good in a hidden place, it gives me a pure joy and peace.
I am still far from succeed because my immature spirituality, but the more I left all those worldly things, I'm more hungry and thirsty in knowing God's wisdom
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