Can you imagine how liberating it would be to know how to choose the best in life? We live in a complex world of multiple choices, many of which are good. We have more new information and more new opportunities offered to us each week—than the average 18th-century person was offered in a lifetime.
Often this leads to an overloaded mind, an overloaded life—and a short-circuited decision-making system. We just don’t know which opportunity and what activity to choose to spend our time doing. Wouldn’t it be incredible to confidently go to work or school and know that you are doing exactly what God wants done? And think of life at home, as you travel, in your free time and everywhere you are—just to know that we are pleasing God by our actions? We can only make one investment in that portion of the river of time that flows by our lives at the speed of 60 minutes per hour. We can’t get time to use over—but we can redeem time as an investment for God.
Does God offer a plan to help us know what is our best use of time for His Kingdom and His Glory? Yes, and it is simple. Paul explains this way of life in Philippians 3.
Paul learned how to live a simple, singularly focused life as a believer. He knew why he was here, and what he was doing—and he did both with all of his strength. In fact, Paul says in Philippians 3 that he was straining every ounce of his body towards the goal of his life which was Christ-like living.
Paul made the Christian life simple because he simply lived life for Christ. He stated his simple goal in Philippians 3.
Philippians 3:12-14 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. NKJV
Paul confidently could say—
One Thing I Do
One thing I do.
Have you come to that point?
It’s a life of many things—done for one supreme purpose.
Paul was consumed with one goal in life, one purpose for living. He did many things—
he had a skill in tent-making that he used to earn a living,
he had a love to travel,
he had a tremendous communication skill set in both speaking and writing,
he was a genius at making and staying in touch with friends,
he loved to sail around the Mediterranean Sea,
he was somewhat of a power-walker (walking hundreds of miles in walks around the Roman Empire),
he had social skills that made him able to comfortably move among the highest circles of the wealthy,
he was very sensitive to the needs and concerns of the poor—and on and on we could go picking out the multi-faceted life of this accomplished person.
But, here in Philippians 3, Paul confesses that everything he did was harnessed to one dominating purpose in his life. One thing connected--every other thing.
“Paul had reduced the whole of sanctification to the simple and clear goal of doing “one thing”—pursuing Christlikeness”.
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