The latter portion of Philippians 2:12 teaches us that we are responsible for "working out our own salvation with fear and trembling.” This means that we are responsible for our own spiritual progress and maturity, by practicing a life of salvation and respecting in reverence the holiness of God.

This further means we take the spiritual and make it practical so that it's natural for us to live spiritually.  The Apostle Paul says in Romans 7:15, "I don’t understand what I am doing.  I don’t practice what I want to do, but instead, I do what I hate."

Then Paul says in the 18th verse, "For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out."

As spiritual beings having a human encounter, it is essential to know that there is no such thing as perfection.  We will never get everything right. This is the place of God's grace that is always sufficient (2 Corinthians 12:9).

The legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers, Vince Lombardi, back in the late 1960s, once declared to his team “there is no such thing as perfection. But, if you chase perfection, you can catch excellence.”

Excellence is the quality of excelling and being the best at something. 1 Corinthians 10:31 in TPT teaches us, “Whether you eat or drink, live your life in a way that glorifies and honors God.”

One definition of glorify that I discovered means "feeling and thinking and acting in ways that reflect and give evidence of the supreme greatness of God’s attributes operating in and through us."

Join us on today's podcast as we discuss and discover principles from God's word of the necessity of Saving Ourselves From Ourselves that reflect and give evidence of God's attributes operating in and through our lives for His own glory.