You move forward

If someone ask, "Do you know Jesus?" what would you say? "yes, I've been saved and I know I'm going to heaven." If that were your response, then good. You've just told everybody that you are justified and forgiven. But I hope you could also say, "Yes Jesus and I are intimate with each other. Let me tell you about her the kind of person He is and how much I love spending time with Him. More than a head knowledge, I desire a heart knowledge of You. If you are are preoccupied with your past, ask God to open your eyes to the incredible future that awaits you and begin, like Paul, to press on to what is ahead. "I consider them rubblish, 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 is through faith in Christ the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. (Philippians 3:8-9) But the good news is that when you make the simple confession to Jesus, to follow Him. "Brethen, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,  forgotting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. (V.13) In today's reading, Paul describes what is like to know Christ in terms of being justified. Of being legally positioned on God's side. Here, Paul is saying that God has done something for us on His books. It's wonderful to have the Lord impute His righteousness to us. But many Christian think that's all there is to Christianity. There's much more. After verse 9 of Philippians, Paul discusses a different kind of  knowledge of Christ. Paul no longer comments on his position, the fact that he has been "found in him.. through the righteousness that comes from God." No, Paul talk about his experience of God... I want to know  Christ and power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharingin his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. (v10-11)