Come Up Higher

“I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised Him from the dead”. To experience the mighty power that raised Him from the dead, we must suffer with Him, sharing in His death. Now that’s not a literal command, sharing in His death. To suffer with Him can mean to suffer something said to you that was offensive or hurtful, letting trivial unnecessary confrontation go. To keep the peace in a bad situation could be a suffering moment. Suffering persecution from telling the truth, is part of knowing you’re on the right track. Sharing in His death is indicative of christians keeping the flesh under control. The flesh being, your emotions, or appetites of the body, over eating, unnatural sexual behavior, over indulgence in drinking alcohol, etc. Suffering with Christ is the next level up of Christian maturity. The apostle Paul wrote this verse to the Philippians, he also wrote two thirds of the new testament in the bible. He yearned to be like Christ in every way. Are you eating meat yet, or are you still on the milk of God’s word? Come up higher.