Philippians 3

Okay I really don't want ya'll to think  I have no life because I blog all the time, it's just that I'm constantly having things on my heart that I NEED to get out. Haha anyways every night lately I have been having really rough nights, really bad thoughts in my head. These thoughts and moods always come at night at about this time. It's been happening for the past 2 weeks! And honestly I'm just so sick of feeling that way and thinking that way. So I'm kind of trying to do something about it, I'm reading the Bible instead of thinking and going on twitter. Those two things: twitter and thinking seem to get me down lately!  So as I was doing some Bible reading tonight I read these like SO flippin amazing verses like I got goosebumps and the whole deal ha. It was Philippians 3..  I just read the whole chapter. But some quotes or phrases that really stuck out to me were:

IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE READ THIS:

The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I’m tearing up and throwing out with the trash—along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant—dog dung. I’ve dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him. I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ—God’s righteousness.
 I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself

Focused on the Goal

^12-14 I’m not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don’t get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back.

^15-16 So let’s keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision—you’ll see it yet! Now that we’re on the right track, let’s stay on it.

^17-19 Stick with me, friends. Keep track of those you see running this same course, headed for this same goal. There are many out there taking other paths, choosing other goals, and trying to get you to go along with them. I’ve warned you of them many times; sadly, I’m having to do it again. All they want is easy street. They hate Christ’s Cross. But easy street is a dead-end street. Those who live there make their bellies their gods; belches are their praise; all they can think of is their appetites.

^20-21 But there’s far more to life for us. We’re citizens of high heaven! We’re waiting the arrival of the Savior, the Master, Jesus Christ, who will transform our earthy bodies into glorious bodies like his own. He’ll make us beautiful and whole with the same powerful skill by which he is putting everything as it should be, under and around him.

Honestly just read the whole chapter.. I dare you!