Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Suffer the loss of all things

Php 3:8  Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

Suffering the loss of ALL things.

People do lose all their things. People lose their jobs, their homes, their families, their health, all their wealth,  all their friends. We lose these things all through our lives. Not many people go through life without knowing any loss, if any do at all. We lose things and we don't like to lose things.  Loss is something we adjust too but don't necessarily accept. We like to recover the things we've lost. We like to think that once we've lost something that it's not impossible that we'll get similar if not the exact things back. We may lose a loved one, but we may gain another love, no never quite the same but still an addition after a loss. We may lose our home, but we may get another- different perhaps but still a place we can call home. 

Counting ALL things but loss to KNOW our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ is TRUTH. Being willing to lose ALL things but our knowing our Savior is TRUTH. Comprehending that we are promised NOTHING in this pilgrimage we're on save the TRUTH, is something we need to do especially when we are suffering loss after loss, after loss. Especially when our lives seem so incredibly messed up and Satan is seemingly non-stop assaulting us.  It is so easy to stop fighting the good fight, to stop running the race, to give in because to cling to a Savior who isn't saving us from tribulations, from traumas, from the agonies of living in this temporary world is something a lot of people would call stupid, and crazy. Our Savior did NOT promise to save us from the agonies of this life, in fact He knew most of us would die the first death. The promise was for ETERNAL LIFE, not an easy temporary existence until eternal life kicks in.

Suffering the loss of all things- all those things might as well be DUNG- compared to KNOWING CHRIST!  Knowing CHRIST is all things! Knowing CHRIST is the treasure of this life! Knowing Christ is our greatest honor, our greatest endeavor winning Christ!

Knowing that CHRIST is our life, our happiness, our everything- this is knowing all other things are temporary to eternity.

Please, Father, we would KNOW YOU, we would know our SAVIOR!  Please Father, we don't want to lose all things, it goes against our desire for comfort, for peace, for ease, for being anxiety free, but we would know YOU. Whatever this temporary life holds for us, the good and the bad, let us KNOW YOU! Let us WIN CHRIST!

All by His GRACE, His Mercy, His Righteousness, His Love, always!

Amen.


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