Pressing through Complacency!!!

As we are all connected in the Body of Christ, it is very dangerous for even one of us to become complacent in our walks. This unfortunately robes the body year after year of its impact on this secular world. We as children of the most High God, become satisfied with our state in life and our position of being counted as a saint. It is wonderful to appreciate the position we have been given in Christ and the fact that we glorify God for our salvation and our eternal hope in our home in the heavens. But we have a purpose here on earth and when we get to the place when we think we read enough or pray enough and that God is pleased were we are, that is the start of our fall. Our Christian journey’s can never come to a place when we feel as though we have made it or that we are ”good” where we are in our walks. Sadly, this is usually the time when Satan comes in and starts us on a slow slippery slide away from our purpose and our maturity in Christ. We simply stop running to meet the mark of our creation and we settle for a Christian social scene were more often than not an attitude of entitlement to the blessings of God is fostered and arrogance and hate for those still trapped in the world is formed. This religious spirit has crippled saint after saint and church after church. If we are not careful we will fall to the same trappings of the enemy and settle for something that is lower a than the standard of God!!! Today press forward in your race, have the mindset that the finish line is reaching glory!!! Have a wonderful life of enjoying the Word on purpose!!!!!

Philippians 3

No Confidence in the Flesh
1Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
2Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh. 3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— 4though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless.
7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Pressing on Toward the Goal
12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
15All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
17Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. 18For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. 20But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.