In Philippians 3:12-13a Paul continues in describing how he is willing to give up everything for the sake of Jesus. He focuses now on the future of his relationship with Christ. “Not that I have already lobtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.” Paul wrote from such spiritual maturity and purity that we might expect he believed that he had conquered all of life’s spiritual difficulties and saw himself as having arrived at near perfection. Yet here he assured us that is not the case at all. There was no perfectionist attitude in Paul.
Unfortunately today, many believe they have made it and give the image that their life is perfected, which is not the case. Spurgeon addressed this attitude with his writing: “But while the work of Christ for us…
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