Pursuing towards greatness

I was outside doing my quiet time recently and the Lord directed me to the book of Philippians. It's crazy how the Lord works sometimes because this is just what I needed to study. The whole central theme of this book is pursuing "Christlikness." It's like this: when we are born we are babies, as we grow we become into youth and then onto being an adult. Well the Christian walk is like that. When we are born again we are a spiritual baby and as we begin to understand scripture we grow continually into a spiritual adult.

I know how it is to be a spiritual baby, in fact before I came to college that is what I was. I had been saved but I had not been getting "spiritually fed" and I was living in my sin. It wasn't until I was about to graduate from high school that I desired to be spiritually fed and in tune with God. I was eager and ready for change. It's wasn't until second semester and before that winter break before I started to notice things that didn't add up. I have grown so much in my walk with God because this semester its mind bogging. I guess God is making up for all those years that I missed out on. Thats what I love about Him, His mercy.

The verse that stuck out to me was is Philippians 1:21 "To live as Christ, and to die is gain." I knew that this verse was something that the Lord wanted me to remember because I had been repeating it all day. I broke it down to make it simple. In order to go full out for Christ we need to be willing to give Him everything. We need to be willing to die to this world. It has nothing for us anyway. There is so much pain and hurt in this world its not even funny. You will be persicuted for your beliefs if you stand for Christ, but He goes out to prepair a place for you and directs the path. Isn't that comferting to know?? That the Lord goes out before you? That should give us hope and not fear. There's light at the end of the tunnel. Keep going.