Fight for God-Determined Perfection

13 June 2007 – Fight for God-Determined Perfection

Philippians 3:12

I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me.

Everyone has an unique plan that made by God, everyone of us do not come to the Earth merely by coincidences and “accidents”. It is destiny of God who brought you here, you are being chosen to be born in this time and in this generation, then you must live like this generation, think like this generation, and furthermore make an impact out of it!

In Paul’s letter to people in Philippi, he emphasized that he does not think that he has reached ultimate perfection. What does he mean by perfection? Of course, it includes our personality, our spiritual growth and spiritual health only, isn’t it not including the achievement that we had made? How about our work? How about our study? Indeed! Whatever we do, we must press on to possess that perfection that God has determined for us!

We have an ultimate destiny that God wanted us to achieve. Just spend some time for some examples:

• What is the destiny of Moses?

The destiny of Moses is to lead the Israelites to escape out of Egypt and became their leaders, but he cannot make it to Land of Canaan that the Lord wanted the Israelites to enter.

• What is the destiny of David?

David’s life plan is to replace King Saul to become the King of Israel, which is fully respected among all Israelites. We fight the battles that we never lose, in God’s hand, he put his hope in God, he puts his life in God. He became a wonderful psalmist too! But he was not chosen to built a temple for God.

• What is the destiny of Solomon?

Solomon inherits his father’s place to conquer the Israelites with wisdom, power, glory, wealth, and fame! He also has chosen to build the temple for the Lord!

Now do you clearly get what is meant by the destiny? We all have a divine plan from the Lord, he wanted us to achieve things that we can do and we can achieve, so that His will will be fulfilled. One thing that we ought to keep in mind, is that we might made mistakes sometimes, we should learn it from mistakes, and what should we do?

Phil 3:13-14

I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

Notice that it is the heavenly prize that we receive, so we have to run the race, and guess what? WIN THE PRIZE!!!!