My name is Joseph... And I am a type of Christ.

What a journey... I'm not kidding, nor am I exaggerating... It's been quite the journey... God doesn't just wave His all-powerful wand and "...Wallah!...", there it is... Not when it comes to His relationship with those He has called to Himself.

The journey of God's full salvation is a God-ordained and prescribed, life-long perfecting process; one that takes many years... Yes, denying your natural self—meaning, lose your soul life—takes a long time, and consists of much suffering. This is because over the years, in one way or another and to one degree or another, we all become very comfortable with, and attacked to our natural self... And we don't like it being torn away from us.

But being torn away from our familiar old fallen man is an intrinsic aspect of God plan of salvation for us. And there's no way around it.

Yet, if there's one thing that I've learned regarding perhaps making this process a little easier, it's to forget that which is behind and stretch forward to that which is in front. Just a bit of divine wisdom spoken to us by the apostle Paul (Phil. 3:13).

In a nutshell, this is what my blog posts are all about... Forgetting that which is behind, and stretching forward to that which is ahead.

It really is the only way for every Christian believer to proceed forward into God... Which is why God caused us to become Christians... It's why God caused us to be eternally saved by believing INTO Christ Jesus... God became a Man, so that He could bring whosoever believes INTO His Son, Christ Jesus, into Himself.

So off I go then, on another part of my long full salvation of God journey... And I'll begin by giving you one small bit of reading advice... As you read what I write, don't look at me, look away to Jesus... He is who you need to hear... And my words, hopefully, are just a kind of vehicle by which He will speak to you.

Amen.