Questions

Why do we focus so much on how we feel and so little on what God said?

Why do we spend so much time preparing for this life and so little preparing for eternity?

Why do we spend so much time thinking about our own suffering and so little time remembering the suffering of Jesus?

Why are we bound so tightly by what others think and so loosely by what God thinks?

Why do we cherish our own opinions so highly and yet disregard God’s truth?

Why do we find it easy to read a novel, or a newspaper, or a memoir, and so hard to read God’s Word?

Why do we dedicate so much energy to earthly pursuits and so little to pursuing God?

Why do our memories overflow with past slights and hurts and difficulties but run dry at the memory of Jesus?

Why do we push our children to excel in this life and fail to tell them of the excellence of God?

Why is it so easy to talk about sports or the weather or politics and so difficult to talk about Jesus?

Why do we find it so easy to trust our own abilities and so hard to trust God’s?

Why do we work to give this world our best and struggle to give God our leftovers?

Philippians 3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

8 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 thembut dung, that I may win Christ,

9 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:

10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

12 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.

13 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,

14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.