Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Philippians 3:7, “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.”
The single most important factor in the subjective application of the cross is vision.
The question in all our trials is, What do we see?
When you are tempted to talk back to someone in a way that would give vent to your flesh, what do you see in those moments?
When you would like to strike out at someone – to either vindicate yourself or to say something in a cutting way–what do you see?
What is your vision then?
If our vision is on an earthly level, we will exchange words with others and live out the self.
There will be no application of the cross to interrupt what we feel, to not carry out what begins to boil within us.
So without vision we are a person who does not execute the cross from our spirit over our self in that kind of situation.
Many of our problems are solved very simply if we have vision, if we see that the meaning of everything is Christ, this Person gained by us subjectively.
And the way we gain Him is by losing everything–losing our opinion, losing our heated reaction.
Not gaining it, but losing it.
We lose our reaction by dropping it, by interrupting it.
We are not suffering through it, but we are letting it be terminated.
Just terminate it, gaining Christ in that moment.
This must be our vision.
If we are under this vision, everything is clear.
You are clear about your marriage.
You are clear about your job.
You are clear about your problems.
Because the Lord Himself had this vision before Him, He endured the cross.
We have the same vision set before us, so in like manner we apply the cross in every situation.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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