FORGETTING
WHAT LIES BEHIND...
STRAINING
FORWARD TO WHAT LIES AHEAD...
I PRESS ON TOWARD THE GOAL...
But whatever former things I had that might have been gain to
me, I have come to consider as one combined loss for Christ’s sake. Yes,
furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the
priceless privilege, the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and
supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him --
of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly. For
His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish, refuse,
dregs, in order that I may gain Christ... the Anointed One. And that I may
actually be found and known as
in Him, not having any self-achieved righteousness that can be called my own based
on my obedience to the Law’s demands -- ritualistic uprightness and supposed
right standing with God thus acquired. But possessing that genuine
righteousness which comes through faith in Christ the Anointed One, the true
right standing with God which comes from God by saving faith.
For my determined purpose is that I may know Him, that I may
progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving
and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and
more clearly, and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing
from His resurrection which it exerts over believers. And that I may so share
His sufferings as to be continually transformed in spirit into His likeness,
even to His death, in the hope that if possible I may attain to the spiritual
and moral resurrection that lifts me out from among the dead -- even while in
this body.
Not that I have now
attained this ideal, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay
hold of -- grasp and make my
own -- that for which Christ Jesus the Messiah has laid hold of me and made me His own. I do not
consider, brethren, that I have captured and
made it my own yet; but one thing I do -- it is my one aspiration: Forgetting
what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward
the goal to win the supreme and heavenly prize to which God in Christ Jesus is
calling us upward.
(Phil. 3:7-14 Amp.)
I PRESS ON
TO LAY HOLD OF
GRASP AND MAKE MY OWN
THAT FOR
WHICH CHRIST JESUS THE MESSIAH
HAS LAID
HOLD OF ME
AND MADE ME HIS OWN
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