Perspective

Fill your time with spiritual endeavors, play the hand God has given you.

Phil. 2:9,11,13   9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10  so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father  12  So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;  13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Is. 55:6,8,9,10-11   6  Seek the Lord while He may be found;  Call upon Him while He is near. For He will abundantly pardon. 8  “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.  9  “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.  10  “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,  And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 11         So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty,  Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.      

Phil. 3:7-9   7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,

Philippians 3: 12-14   12 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.  13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,  14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.        

Pro 21: 22       A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.

Pro 22:1   A good name is to be more desired than great wealth, Favor is better than silver and gold.

Gal. 2:20  “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.