Turn off your devices
September 15, 2019
Ready for Take-Off: Turn Off Your Devices
When the flight attendant tells you to turn your devices off on take off or landing, it is so the random signals of many devices won’t interfere with the signals of flight control. Likewise, in our spiritual lives there are the influences of the world that can keep us from focusing on the main pursuit of bringing honor and glory to God and on the life in Him we are supposed to live. So lets stay focused on the main thing, our relationship with Jesus Christ, where we will find true joy and peace and strength for the journey of life.
Philippians 3:12-21
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Following Paul’s Example
15 All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.