Philippians 3:3-14
When I was younger…at one time I was younger! I spent all my life basically landlocked, but now I had moved to Hawaii. One of the things that
I learned to do that I loved was to body surf. The learning curve was difficult and often painful. Having only encountered very small waves and almost nonexistent undertow of the East Coast, Waimea Bay and Sandy Beach were rude awakenings! The key is to “KNOW” what you’re doing. This does not mean to have the knowledge of how to swim and what is water. It means to understand the fullness of what body surfing is…Becoming one with the water, conforming to its movement and speed. If you under shoot the wave you will miss it. If you out swim the wave…Depending where you are; if at Waimea the wave can hold on the bottom of the sea for quite some time; if at Sandy Beach you can literally freefall and face plant in the sand…And even break your neck. Before we can really appreciate something we need to “know” it.
As Paul has used himself as an example of why not to have confidence in the flesh, he is now going to exhort us to really...
