PJP2 SEVEN - 170216 - JOT

SEVEN: Share/Seek; Encourage; Verily Verify the Victory; Evaluate NOW (Note On WORD)

{NOTE: All Passages Of the WORD, Select (POWS) are from the ESV; Also might readily see Emphasis And Paraphrase added/jaj....Appreciate your patience/understanding....}

JOT: Just ONE Thing.....

Luke 10:38-42 (ESV)...."Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village.  And a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house.  And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at The Lord's Feet And Listened To His Teaching.  BUT Martha was distracted with much serving.  And she went up to Him and said, 'Lord, Do You Not Care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.'  BUT The Lord Answered her, 'Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, BUT ONE THING Is Necessary. Mary Has Chosen The GOOD PORTION, Which Will NOT Be taken away from her.'”....

Just ONE Thing.....

General J and I are in the process of down-sizing, meaning we've been beginning to purge through our 30-year collection of 'stuff' that we've accumulated over the course of our experience via my Tours-of-Duty (TOD) with our U.S. Armed Forces.....yikes.....

The Holy Spirit pinged me this morning with this Question:  "Jeff, IF you had to boil your 30-years down to JUST ONE THING to Reflect your TOD, what would that ONE THING be?"

So, I've been setting here Pondering just that - looking over The Collection, there really IS a lot.....Trust me, Team PJP2, I am NOT going to bore you with the list.....just suffice to say, in 30-years, there's a significant pile of STUFF setting here.

At last, I finally stopped and asked our Lord Jesus for His Guidance, His Answer with Regards to this Question.....What ONE THING......The Holy Spirit Brought me to Read His Inspired WORD as Recorded by Paul....

Philippians 3:7-16 (ESV)...."BUT Whatever gain I had, I Counted As LOSS For The Sake Of Christ.  INDEED, I Count EveryThing As LOSS Because Of The Surpassing WORTH Of Knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.  For HIS Sake I have suffered The LOSS Of All Things And Count them as rubbish, In Order 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 Comes THROUGH FAITH In Christ, The Righteousness From God That Depends On FAITH— That I May KNOW HIM And The POWER Of HIS Resurrection, And May Share HIS Sufferings, Becoming Like HIM In His Death, That By Any Means Possible I May Attain The Resurrection from the dead. NOT That I Have Already Obtained This OR am Already Perfect, BUT I PRESS ON To Make IT my own, BECAUSE Christ Jesus Has Made me HIS OWN.  Brothers (& Sisters), I Do NOT Consider That I Have Made IT my own. BUT ONE THING I Do: Forgetting what lies behind AND STRAINING FORWARD To WHAT Lies Ahead, I PRESS ON Toward The GOAL For The PRIZE Of The UPWARD CALL Of God IN Christ Jesus.  Let those of us who are Mature THINK This WAY, And if in anything you THINK otherwise, God Will REVEAL That Also to you.  Only Let us HOLD TRUE To WHAT we Have Attained."....
BaBaaam!

What a POWERFUL Passage Of the WORD Select (POWS).  What A Blessing Of Encouragement for us.  I have made a 'sticky-note' of these POWS and taped it up so as I continue down this Path of Purging....I am Seeing Clearly God's Guidance on....

JUST ONE THING.....

Team PJP2, here's my Prayer for us as we continue to Consider His JUST ONE THING for our Lives....(Psalm 63:1, 3-4, 8 {ESV})....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Praise and Worship You.  You Are our Lord and our God.  Lord Jesus, Strengthen us and Open our Inner-Eyes as we Earnestly Seek You.  Holy Spirit, our Souls Thirst For You.  Father God, our Flesh faints For You, as If we would be sojourning in a dry and weary land where there is no water.  Lord Jesus, You Are our ONE THING!  O Father God, Because Your Steadfast LOVE IS Better Than LIFE, our lips Will Praise You.  O Holy Spirit, we Will BLES You as Long as we Live.  Lord
Jesus, In Your NAME, we Lift Up our hands in Worship and Praise.  Father God, our Souls CLING to You.  Holy Spirit, Remind us Ever That Your Mighty Right Hand Upholds us.  Lord Jesus, Forever and Ever we Worship You, and Lift Up our Prayers and Praise In Your Holy Name.....Amen and Amen....jaj


REMEMBER:  Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.