Monday, February 28, 2005
Yesterday...
Was a day of extreme illness, where it felt like for a few hours that going Home to be with the Lord was possible. As well as the usual, constant symptoms, my liver and one kidney was so on fire and painful it felt like one or the other (or both) would bust. Now its dealing with the aftermath of of the attack, which includes my mind being affected to some degree, my vision worse than is norm, and half deaf in one ear.
Please pray for this weak, sin-filled person. As there's not much like extreme affliction to bring temptations of various kinds. Murmuring and discontent being ones that seem to be the ones I constantly wrestle with.
8Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order 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 comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith-- 10that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Straining Toward the Goal
12Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. |
