Title: Make and Wear Pretty Clothes
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Philippians 3:10-16
3:10 To know Christ, and the power of his resurrection, and to share in his sufferings, following the example of his death, 3:11, that I may somehow attain to the resurrection from the dead, 3:12 I do not say that I have already obtained it, but I am made perfect No, but I run to seize that for which I was caught by Christ Jesus. 3:13 Brethren, I have not yet taken hold of myself, but one thing I have to do: to forget what is behind and to grasp what is ahead. 3:15 So let all of us who are perfected think this way: If you think differently in any matter, God will reveal this to you too, 3:16 But whatever we have come to, will do
People work hard to go somewhere. There are some people who run helplessly, while others run really hard. Of course, the purpose is clear. We run for the future of our children, we run to move to a bigger house, and we run tirelessly for a good job and a stable job. This is how the world is running.
Of course, people who believe in Jesus also run like this. But the method may be the same, but the goal is different. Because our goal is not to eat well and live well on this earth. Outwardly, it seems that we are walking on the same path as the world, but spiritually, we can see that it is a completely different path from the world.
Even 2,000 years ago, no one had ever walked that path. But there were people who believed in it. Abraham or Isaac or Jacob or David...
But I couldn't go down that road. Because that way is the way of the cross. The Bible calls it the narrow way through the narrow gate. Because the world doesn't even recognize the way of the cross, and when you open the narrow door and ask to go the narrow way, you hate it. But at the end of the road there is victory. ‘At the end of this road I am going I will see the Lord…’
I hope that the rest of your life will be a life of opening the narrow door and walking on the narrow path. So, I hope you will witness the Lord standing right in front of your final destination.
God has given us a piece of cloth called the world. Please sew the pieces of cloth with faith, embroider them with hope, and put on the garments of the Holy Spirit. The unbeliever sews the fabric of the world with unbelief, embroiders it with ambition, and tries to put on the robe of destruction. At first glance, it looks delicious and delicious, but when you stand before God, your clothes are very shameful.