The Christian life is a life of gaining Christ in His all-inclusiveness; for this, we need to forget and even forsake the past experiences of Christ and stretch forward to gain Him in a fresh way, paying the price to gain Christ right now, today. We want to be such ones; we want to […]
Run the Race with Endurance to Gain the Prize, Putting away any Encumbrance and Sin
August 9, 2022 by 12 Comments
![Therefore let us also...put away every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles [us] and run with endurance the race which is set before us. Heb. 12:1](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Therefore-let-us-also...put-away-every-encumbrance-and-the-sin.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1)
The Christian life is a race, and we all must put away every encumbrance and sin to run the race with endurance to win the prize, which is the full enjoyment and experience of Christ. Amen! We need to run with endurance the race that is set before us. In running the race, what […]
Hearing the Lord’s Speaking and having the Embroidered Garment for our Wedding Day
January 27, 2017 by 8 Comments
After praising Christ the King in His fairness, victory, kingdom, and virtues, the psalmist praises Christ the King in praising the queen, who is a type of the church, the wife of Christ, as revealed in the Epistles (see Psa. 45:9-15). This psalm – Psa. 45 – is the highest and greatest of all the psalms; it […]
forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to what is before
May 4, 2010 by 5 Comments
“I do not account of myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do: Forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I pursue toward the goal” (Philippians 3:12-14a). A recent reading of this set of verses led to some inner searching during some personal morning time […]
![In My Father's house are many abodes; if [it were] not [so,] I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:2](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/In-My-Fathers-house-are-many-abodes-if-it-were-not-so-I-would-have-told-you.jpg?fit=178%2C100&ssl=1)
