Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Happy New Year from South Africa! This came to mind this morning as I contemplated leaving 2009 behind and heading into 2010, and I thought I would share it with you!
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Phil. 3:8-14
I couldn't have said it better!! What a newyears revelution!! May our GOD richly bless you and your upcoming year of ministries. We shall not grow weary in doing the work that God has called us to perform!!
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AMEN! to your thoughts and the comment.
ReplyDeleteMay our Lord bless you and the ministry there 2010.
Love to all - Diana