“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection,
and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
if, by any means, I may attain to the
resurrection from the dead.
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.” -PHILIPPIANS 3:10-12
Many
years after having first put on the Lord Jesus, Paul declares that he
is still trying to apprehend the One Who has already apprehended him.
The height, width, breadth, length, and depth of this New Man, this
Heavenly Man, is quite beyond what we can measure apart from
Spirit-revelation. We are more familiar with and have more confidence in
the old man than we do in the New Man. By the grace of God, this has to
change. When
we truly see the New Man we transcend the old man. And this, in a
nutshell, is how God accomplishes the work of decreasing us and
increasing Christ.
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar