"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God" (Philippians 1:9-11).
Our
love for the Lord comes from His love for us. His love reaches us. His
love changes us. With Jesus as our Saviour, our life changes direction.
It's less of self - and more of Him. We're moving towards "the day of
Christ." We're not there yet. We've got a long way to go. We find it so
difficult to look beyond where we are right now. Jesus is very different
from us. He looks right on to the end. He sees as we will be at the
time of His Return. Now, we catch only a glimpse of the glory of Christ.
Then, we will see Him in the fullness of His glory. What we shall be is
still to be fully revealed to us. Saved by grace, promoted to glory -
Here-and-now, these are, for us, words of faith. When He returns, we will
enter into the full reality of what it means to be saved by grace and
promoted to glory.
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