The Christian Perspective

	I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.
	—Philippians 3:12Philippians 3:12 English: King James Version (1611) - KJV 12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.   WP-Bible plugin

It has been said that he has the most need of righteousness who least wants it. In other words, if you think, I am really doing well. I don’t really know that I need more righteousness, then you are in greater need than you realize.

The apostle Paul, after years of walking with the Lord, said, “I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me” (Philippians 3:12Philippians 3:12
English: King James Version (1611) - KJV
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.  

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A real mark of a spiritual person is they are always hungry and thirsty for more and more and more.

But there are certain things that spoil our appetite. Sometimes we feed on spiritual junk food and diminish our spiritual appetites.

They are not even bad things in and of themselves, but some things just take the edge off our appetite.

So periodically we need to ask ourselves a question: Is this thing I am engaged in—this relationship, this pursuit, this activity—making me more or less hungry for spiritual things?

Does it draw me closer to God, or does it in some way keep me away from Him? Is it a wing or a weight in the race of life? Does it speed me on my way, or does it slow me down?

Hebrews 12:1Hebrews 12:1
English: King James Version (1611) - KJV
12 ¹ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,  

WP-Bible plugin tells us, “Let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up.

And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.” If you are really hungry and thirsty for righteousness, you will find it.

Because if you really want something, then you will put yourself in that place where you will get it.

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