Heralds Digest

   “ Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ” Philippians 3 : 13 - 14 KJV Apostle Paul’s reference to pressing towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus suggests that another prize pressing in life and ministry is aimed at the low calling of men. Yes, the highest of life’s ambitions in family, career, politics, business, and sometimes even in ministries, if outside the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, are simply the low calling of men. When our motivation in any ambition is aimed at self glory, it becomes low calling and subject to possible discouragement and disappointment, whenever we confront opposition. Even while Apostle Paul was incarcerated despite the huge sacrifices he had made on the field, he kept pressing forward and ...

  “ For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; ” Philippians 2 : 13 - 15 KJV In the absence of invasion from malicious agents, robots are designed to carry out tasks as programmed. Likewise as creatures of the living God and even as free moral agents, we are programmed by God for holiness and righteousness. Yes, we have all been hacked and corrupted by sin; but the redeemed children of God have the chance to reconciliation as righteous robots with all responses to Gods redemption plan. And to the Philippians, Apostle Paul had to remind believers of their status as righteous robots: “ For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure ”. There is something deep in our acknowledgment of the power of grace be...