Philippians 3:10 - 14. To enter into oneness with God through Jesus Christ and to pursue the new life in Christ while running hard on this world's earth - Heart in heaven and feet on the ground. Call me heavenward, Jesus!
I am an "ordinary Christian". In this world I may be, as all of God's children, extraordinary (Gen 1:27). In Christ I can do extraordinary things (Phil 4:13). But I like to identify myself as an ordinary Christian because I want to serve Christ according to the pleasure of His will, as His bondservant, as a slave, one owned by her Master. As such, every extraordinary thing I may do in Christ is standard fare, expected and a reasonable service of worship. With my view of Christ on my cross, I do not evaluate my service according to my own judgment. I do not choose to think of myself more highly than I ought, but rather I want to think of myself with sober judgment (Rom 12:3). Anything good I do is by the grace of Christ given me. I have no ability to measure what I do or don't do. I desire for my eye to be single and good. This is why I am an ordinary Christian. After all, Paul called himself "chief of sinners." Is it anything unreasonable to be known as an ordinary Christian?
posted by An Ordinary Christian | 9:46 PM
3 Comments:
Thanks for the prayers, I always need them. Lots going on in my life right now, we just had a another boy move in. He has been coming to Bible Study at our house for a year. He called and asked if he could move in, said he wanted to follow God with all his heart and he felt living with us and Joseph would be a step in that direction. Humbling to us to think about!!!
thanks so much for the prayers. i needed that.
God bless you.
It's such a blessing to me that God has provided friends to hold me up in prayer and He has used the internet to do it! He truly is a God of the here and now! Those who say Christianity and God are no longer relevant have never met the christian blogging community! You are in my prayers as well as you administer healing and wisdom to hurting people.
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