What things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ, wrote Paul. Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him...that I may know Him.(Phil.3:7-10). When Paul says he counts the things he lost dung, he means not merely that he does not think them as having any value, but also that he does not live with them constantly in his mind: what normal person spends his time nostalgically dreaming of manure? Yet this, if effect, is what many of us do. It shows how little we have in the way of true knowledge. If anyone asks us how men may know God, we can at once produce the right formulae- that we come to know God through Jesus Christ the Lord, in virtue of His Cross and mediation, on the basis of His word of promise, by the power of the Holy Spirit, via a personal exercise of faith.. When a man knows God, losses and crosses cease to matter to him; what he has gained simply banishes these things from his mind. We need to count all as dung for Christ sake...
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 04:48:44 +0000
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