Ever Feel Like...

You keep missing "it"?

I do. 

I feel like I finally begin to get it and then something happens and I totally lose it.  And I wonder what just happened?  I thought I was getting this, this thing I know I need to get, I want to get and yet I can't seem to hang onto it.

I wonder, while I live in this earthly flesh, if I'll ever get "it?" I am guessing: Probably not.  Which makes me sad, but then I am reminded of Paul's words to the Philippians:

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. 

Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh-- though I myself have reason for such confidence. 

If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eight day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless. 

But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ-- the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like death, and so, somehow, to attain the resurrection from the dead. 

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that which Christ Jesus took hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, 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, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

(Phillippians 3:1-14)

Even Paul, who could have had "it", didn't want "it".  He knew if he got "it" he would be throwing away his need for the grace and goodness of ALL Christ Jesus did.  All he wanted was Christ! 

Praise the Lord!!  I'm going to forget about getting my "it" and figure out how to hold onto Christ and let Him take care of it.