I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.
Philippians 3:7 NLT
Have you ever "woken up" & realised that something you put so much value in, something that seemed so important, just isn't?
That's what Paul is confessing to here... the key things he'd placed his worth on, his identity in, his place in the world, were shown up as poor substitutes for knowing Jesus.
His ethnicity, sex, education, work, and the last thing in his list in v 6, his self-salvation project, (if he was just good enough) were of no value compared to knowing what Jesus had done for him.
He'd put his faith in good things, and now found the real thing he'd been striving for.
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Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he ...
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