As believers in Christ, we urgently need to grow and mature in the divine life for the maturity of the bride of Christ to bring Him back. The Lord Jesus will marry a mature bride; we need to go on, be brought on to maturity, and pursue growth and maturity in the life of Christ, […]
Live a Life of Gaining Christ in His All-Inclusiveness: Forget and Stretch Forward!
The Christian life is a life of gaining Christ in His all-inclusiveness; for this, we need to forget and even forsake the past experiences of Christ and stretch forward to gain Him in a fresh way, paying the price to gain Christ right now, today. We want to be such ones; we want to […]
Pursue Growth and Maturity in the Life of Christ until we Arrive at a Full-Grown Man
As believers in Christ who have the life of God in their spirit, we need to pursue growth and maturity in the life of Christ until we arrive at a full-grown man, the church as the Body of Christ growing into a mature man. None of us can say that we have already arrived […]
forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to what is before
“I do not account of myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do: Forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I pursue toward the goal” (Philippians 3:12-14a). A recent reading of this set of verses led to some inner searching during some personal morning time […]