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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