“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.”
Here
Paul reminds us that this isn’t a goal you reach here on this earth – the ability
to count all things loss and rubbish and to only see Christ. This is something
that happens when you reach the destination. When Revelation 21:4 comes to pass
and all the former things have passed away.
A set
of verses I cling to when times are hard here on this earth is I Corinthians
4:16-18 (this is in the NIV – the translation I memorized it in) “Therefore we
do not lose heart, though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are
being renewed day by day, for our light and momentary troubles are achieving
for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on
what is seen, but on what is unseen; For what is seen is temporary, but what is
unseen is eternal.”
This
world is rubbish and loss, but since we’re living it – it’s hard to see it that
way. We forget that the comfy couch you sit in now is nothing compared to what
we will be seated on in Heaven. That the beautiful new paved road doesn’t
compare to the golden streets. That the beautifully hand-crafted doors of the Sistene
Chapel don’t even come close to the beautiful majesty of just the pearl gates
that will lead us in to the eternal kingdom.
Today,
during On The Mount, I shall look up verses about the amazing power and majesty
of God, and the coming kingdom and make it my prayer that I live for the
heavenlies – and remember that the things here will one day pass away.
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