To Win Christ

Apostle Grace Lubega

Philippians 3:8(KJV); Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.

Paul counted all things as loss that he may win Christ. What does it mean to win Christ?

Winning Christ is not merely giving your life to Christ such that He dwells in your heart by faith. That is Him winning you to Him.

Winning Christ is not the demonstration of the power of God and the performing of miracles. Miracles merely follow the believer.

There are people who have been won to Christ but have not won Christ.

Christ is the prize of the high calling of God. He is the reward of the race run, the good fight fought, the course finished and the faith kept (2 Timothy 4:7).

To win Christ is to see Him as the end of all things.
Many people see Him as the beginning but not many people see Him as the end.

He is the author of their success and so they seek Him as the one who must start them off on a journey of success but they do not behold Him at the end of that journey.

He is the alpha of their ministries, the one who gives them the grace to grow but they do not behold Him as the omega of their ministries.

If Christ is your end, you count ALL (not some) things as loss. It is the place of total detachment from the things of this life and absolute attachment to Christ.

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? (Matthew 16:26).

Sacrificial living is a pattern of the men who win Christ.

FURTHER STUDY: Colossians 3:1-4, 2 Timothy 4:7

GOLDEN NUGGET:

To win Christ is to see Him as the end of all things.

PRAYER: Loving Father, I thank you for this Word. I thank you for the things that I must follow as a believer. Like Paul, I choose to forget all the things that are behind and press forward towards the mark of the prize of the high calling. I set my eyes on things above where Christ is seated. At the end of my life, Christ shall be the testimony of my life. To the glory of your name, Amen.