What Would You Have Me Do?

Philippians 3:7-14 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 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.

When Saul fell to the ground on the Damascus Road, he realized that God’s will was totally different from the course Saul had set from himself. Yet when He acknowledged Christ as Lord, he realized that none of his own goals would have brought him peace and right standing with God. Everyone who trusts Christ for salvation must undergo a similar transformation to acknowledge Christ’s right as Lord of our lives. Even after salvation, we must never forget that God’s will is what we must seek after if we would find the prize of the high calling of God.