To what do you aspire?

[Byfaithalone1]

• All knowledge?
• Opportunities to teach others what you believe?
• Stability?
• Influential church positions?
• A healthy body that will last more than 100 years?
• Inner peace?
• Sinlessness?
• Healthy relationships with spouse, children and extended family?
• Unity in the body of Christ?
• Wealth (for use in helping others)?
• Stars in your crown?
• Missions work in other countries?
• Love?
• Something else I haven't listed?

If you aspire to more than one thing, is there a priority?

BFA

 

[Joe67]

• All knowledge?
• Opportunities to teach others what you believe?
• Stability?
• Influential church positions?
• A healthy body that will last more than 100 years?
• Inner peace?
• Sinlessness?
• Healthy relationships with spouse, children and extended family?
• Unity in the body of Christ?
• Wealth (for use in helping others)?
• Stars in your crown?
• Missions work in other countries?
• Love?
• Something else I haven't listed?

If you aspire to more than one thing, is there a priority?

BFA

BFA,

We aspire to that for which we "hope." In Christ Jesus it is the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. In Moses it is the good of longevity and comfort in this natural body.

Hope that is visible is not hope. We look at the invisible things and hope for the fullness of that for which we have been given an earnest/engagement gift, through the righteousness which is of faith.

The earnest is the beginning of our high calling in Jesus. There are advanced gifts given through Jesus and faith that prepare us, in hope, for the fullness in the redemption of the body, the resurrection of the body as a spiritual body.

Faith becomes vain if we are moved away from the hope of the gospel. When faith spoils and becomes vain, then we are still in our sins. Then we teach others that there is not victory over sin through faith. Those who teach thus are called the least in the kingdom of God. Victory over the lusts of our flesh and the lusts of our eyes is given even though sin(pride of life) is still in our flesh. Grace wars continually against the sin that is in our members and in union with our God ordained trials delivers us from the pride of life so that the 3 beasts of Daniel 7 do not have dominion over us.

Hope springs up in the room of grace, as tribulations do their light/little/temporary work, and the love of God is shed abroad into the 4 corners of our spiritual heart and mind. Hope covers and delivers us from the shame of our nakedness.

Rom 8:24-25
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
KJV

Acts 2:25-26
25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:KJV

Joe

 

[Byfaithalone1]

Joe . . . can you help me interpret your post? To what do you aspire? Do you aspire to hope?

BFA

 

[VictorC]

Unity in the body of Christ?

Number one priority: the unity of the faith entrusted to us.

Jude v.3
Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

"The" is singular, and "once for all" doesn't permit modification.

 

[Byfaithalone1]

Number one priority: the unity of the faith entrusted to us.

Would "love" tie for that "number one" spot, or is it farther down the list?

BFA

 

[Joe67]

Joe . . . can you help me interpret your post? To what do you aspire? Do you aspire to hope?

BFA

BFA,

The common salvation belongs to the nations.

The high calling that is in Jesus and his family of priestly servants is the hope, the prize, that is set before us.

It is good to be blessed by the family of priests.

It is better to be in the family of priests.

Faith is good and therein is justification and peace with God. Faith and hope is better, for therein is justification and salvation.

Joe

 

[VictorC]

Would "love" tie for that "number one" spot, or is it farther down the list?

BFA

There can be only one number one.

 

[Laodicean]

BFA, I aspire to know God on a personal basis, which includes meeting Him in person one day where we can really "rap" on a face-to-face basis. I don't care what kind of environment comes with that interaction, in terms of material things. Let it be on a barren moonscape or some rocky and desolate planet, all that matters to me is to be able to "hang out" with this amazing, mind-blowing Person!

To know God, then, is my first priority, and I expect that if I keep it in first place, then everything else on your list will take their rightful place. Oh, haste the day!