Words to Live By

Philippians 3:7-11 (New International Version)

⁷But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. ¹⁰I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

WORDS TO LIVE BY

Anything good that I find inside me that comes from my own power is worthless to me. I have set it all aside, putting no trust in it so that I can have the overwhelming blessing of knowing my Lord Jesus. I have given up everything in order to have Him in my life. All that I am and all that I have I consider trash so that I may gain Christ and be founded in Him, not having my own righteousness as a result of obeying the Law but that which comes by faith in Him. My righteousness comes from God, and I have received it by faith - not though some deed or works that I have done.

It is my greatest desire to know Jesus and the power of His resurrection in my life. I am a partaker of His sufferings. I am fully identified with Him in His death so that His resurrection life can flow in and through me.

Life's Little Nuggets
Failure is always written in pencil, not ink. <unknown>