Title Philippians 03:8 A life of premiere
Content Philippians 3:8
The life of faith is a life of detachment. Detachment means to let go as opposed to clinging. Paul lived a life of detachment. Before being born again, Paul was obsessed with Hebrew descent, pure Pharisees, and Roman citizenship. However, after knowing Jesus, he regarded everything as excrement and separated from these things.
Jesus truly lived a life of detachment. Although he was equal with God and had all the powers in heaven, he did not cling to the glory of the heavenly throne, emptied himself, and came to this earth in the form of a servant.
The first separation of Jesus was made by God as a propitiation sacrifice to save us from our sins, and he lived a life of separation by emptying himself according to the will of the Father. He also did not want to bear the pain of the cross because he took on the flesh, so he asked that his cup pass. However, he wanted the Father's will to be done soon, so he took up the cross by emptying himself detachably.
Living a life of premiere is lonely. Because the flower of detachment is solitude. Meditation that blossoms in solitude bears much fruit. Meditation is the Greek word melete, which means 'continuous shedding of blood'. Meditation is not mere intoxication, it is a bloody spiritual struggle. In this sense, the Garden of Gethsemane is evidently a place stained with the blood of Jesus. This is where the spiritual warfare of giving up my will was waged. Silence and contemplation are a time to arm ourselves for spiritual battle and a time to unite with God.
Abraham also lived a life of premiere. Relatives When we receive God's command to leave our father's home, we do not cling to it and leave our hometown. Paul Trunier read Genesis 12 and said in 'Psychology of the human place' that leaving the root of life is the same as dying. When Abraham left Ur of the Chaldeans, he felt almost like he was going to die. However, he became the father of faith by leaving detachedly without clinging to the house or land. He did not cling to his 100-year-old son, and when God told him to offer it as a burnt offering, he resolutely ascended Mount Moriah. Paul's spirituality is the spirituality of detachment. The reason I said, "I have lost everything to gain Christ, and count it as dung" is because I am not attached to it. Therefore, the spirituality of detachment is possible only when things of the world are relativized and Christ is absolute. To gain Christ means to gain everything.