Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life!

Tonight, Bryan and I went to his work Christmas party.   It was the first time I left Katherine for more then a couple hours.  Katherine turns 4 months old on the 23rd of December and still nurses quite frequently, so I wasn’t quite sure how she would do if we left her with a babysitter.  I made sure she had a bottle, but she still hasn’t gotten the hang of using a bottle as opposed to feeding with Mommy.   We were gone for nearly 3 hours and decided to call back to the sitters (ie, my younger sisters) to see how she was doing- which was not well!  She wouldn’t take her bottle and was crying every few minutes.   We left the party and when we pulled up in front of the house where my dear baby girl was, my sister was in the window, holding Katherine in her arms and you could see that Katherine was crying.  I walked into the house and took my baby in my arms and  immediately she stopped crying!  It was as if she had an off and on switch- Katherine’s reaction was so immediate.   It just made me feel so special and blessed.

As I fed her, I got to thinking that Katherine’s longing for me, her mother,  is comparable to how we should long for Christ!  We aren’t going to be satisfied until we have Him and only Him.  Nothing and no one else will do.

“But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order 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 comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.

Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.”  Phil. 3:7-21