God creates everything good. God blesses us with everything good. The gains God gives us are good. Our homes, our health, our jobs, our bank accounts, our cars, our easy chairs are all good…. But, compared to knowing Christ, relative to the greater than good of Christ and God’s great gift of eternal life in Him, all else is relative rubbish. With Paul, let us all hold fast to Christ, even if that means letting go of other things, yes, even good things. Philippians 3:7-16 Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, 11if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 12Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. 15Let those of us then who are mature be of the same mind; and if you think differently about anything, this too God will reveal to you. 16Only let us hold fast to what we have attained.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:01:34 +0000
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