What are you pursuing in your life?  We can take Paul’s instruction to Timothy and make personal application. 1 Timothy 6:9-10 was written about those who were not content. Their desires were ungodly.

Verse 11 says, “But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.” We could take each of these six things and expand their meanings through Scripture.

Isaiah 64:6 says that our fleshly righteousness is as filthy rags. At salvation, 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” That is our standing.

Isaiah 32:17 is our state ~ progressive sanctification. It says, “The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.” I like to think of this verse as the work of a potter on a wheel. The clay has to conform to the pressure of the potter’s hand.