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The Continuous Experience

Philippians 3:10
“I want to know Christ - yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,”
What greater act of love has any other man ever committed than Christ sacrificing His life so that we may have ours? There is certainly an abundance of power in His resurrection because of the fact that He never deserved it to begin with; He never deserved anything He endured in the perfection that was His life. However, the verse does not intend for the resurrection of Christ to be a one-time event, but rather the continuous experience that is held in walking with the Lord. The significance of the resurrection is that because of what He did for us, we are now able to walk in victory, fighting a battle that has already been won. Of course, walking with the Lord comes with its fair share of ridicule that to an extent could cause us to fall short of His truth. However, there is no amount of ridicule in which we could encounter on our walks that could possibly compare to the persecution in which Christ endured. At one point, He pleaded in desperation with His Father in Luke 22:42 crying out, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.” As perfect as He was, He still longed to be relieved of the task that He had been sent to accomplish. Had Jesus Christ given into His fleshly desires and not gone to the cross, we would be damned to hell for all of eternity.  Our own lives are not much different, as we are constantly faced with the choice of living for our flesh or living for the Lord. But let us choose John 14:6, “…the way and the truth and the life…” of Jesus Christ in everything that we do because there is no better way than His way and there is no better death than dying for the One who died for us.

Application
This week, I will humbly submit to working at MudMan even on the days that I do not want to.  

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