You need to Lose Everything

Jesus is the ultimate. Jesus is the only thing that will satisfy. The pleasures and joys of this world are fleeting (just ask the Alabama Football team: their rival, Auburn won the national title the year after they did). The cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of wealth choke us to death in our spiritual walk.

And we let it. We let it....

I feel like I say the same thing in every post but this is what the Spirit is instructing me to do. I can't call myself a man of God if I am only concerned with what man wants me to do:

"For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were trying to please man, I would not be a servant of God."
                                  ~Galatians 1:10~

We are so obsessed and concerned with the things of this world! Don't get me wrong though, it is OKAY to have things. But we miss the bigger picture. In Philippians 3:8, Paul says:

"Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ."

Some words we can replace with surpassing:

• outstanding
• superior
• exceptionally greater
• better
• exceeding
• beating
• bettering

Listen, Paul counts EVERYTHING, money, cars, computers, family, friends, fame, clothes, good looks, and toys, AS LOSS!

These things ARE WORTHLESS....in comparison with the knowledge of knowing Jesus Christ.

But Paul doesn't stop there. He even ADMITS his struggle to let go of those things. He says he has SUFFERED the loss of all things. But he goes EVEN FURTHER: in order that I may GAIN Christ.

But when God blesses us with things, we are to SHOW the world that money, cars, computers, family, friends, fame, clothes, good looks, and toys, are given to us so that we can show the world that money isn't our treasure....CHRIST is.

Is this true in our lives?