For many, Christianity is about being a church member, avoiding the “big sins”, being a good neighbor, friend, and parent. They don’t pray or read the Bible as they should and they attend church when it’s convenient.
Being a genuine Christian is about a higher calling. The Apostle Paul was the kind of Christian God wants us to be. He wrote the Philipi Church about it.
Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
The “high calling in Christ Jesus” involves a consecrated life. On this path every mile reveals more of God’s glory. Every valley proves His sweetness, and every burden His grace.
As we experience His grace, His presence, His power, His glory, and His blessings, we develop a desire to know Jesus better, to study His Word, and to put Him first in our lives.
The consecrated life is dead to the world but alive to God, His word and His will. All it wants is what God wants.
