I.B.S. #33

Philippians 3:8

- "Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ."

"Everything I once held dear, I count it all as loss." Everytime I think of this song, I think of all the skits that I have seen with this song. As we have seen during our training here, for the most part at least, they all have to do with a person who chases after the desires of the flesh, gets themselves hurt from those desires, Jesus saves them from death, takes thier sins, dies for them, and raises again; conquring death. This verse reminds me that everything we used to do in the flesh we gave up in order that we could grow closer to Christ. Also, that while we may not have thought it was worth it during the suffering of the loss of it all, we gained Christ and in reality all we lost is all the garbage that we carried around with us. It's kind of cool that when you look at those skits we do, the person who Jesus is dieing for, is happy committing the sin until it starts to hurt her, then they begin to cry when it hurts them and when Jesus is being hurt because of them. It's funny/sad to think we think we suffer for Christ having to face this world and thier mockery when Christ died because of us. I makes me ask myself am I really dieing for Christ? I feel like I need to be suffering more for Him.

Mike will keep me accountable to serving during the things I dont like.