Philippians 3:10-11
That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Most of us know about God: His covenants, commands, and promises. However, far fewer truly know Him: the living God behind the doctrine. In today’s verse, Paul’s cry, “I want to know Christ,” shatters religious complacency. This isn’t academic study; it’s a hunger for vital divine union-shared breath, shared heartbeat.
Fellowship in suffering is the sacred forge where love deepens. Just as soldiers bond through shared trenches, or friends become family through crisis, so suffering with Christ anchors us into His presence.
This intimacy reveals God’s character in the fire, and unlocks resurrection power, not as a theological concept, but as a living reality. Paul’s yearning presses past reverence into encounter. To experience the Spirit who resurrected Christ now at work in us.
To know Christ in this way transforms our identity: we become more than disciples—we are His beloved. His resurrection power isn’t confined to history; today, it shatters our chains of fear, sin, or despair. When we “die to self” daily, we make space for His life to rise within us.
A Prayer for Your Journey:
Jesus, draw me beyond words on a page. Let me feel Your heartbeat in my sorrows, taste Your strength in my frailty as my self-will crumbles. Breathe Your resurrection life through my ashes. Turn my trembling “somehow’ into an unending hymn of trust. Amen.
