Today’s Thought “Profit and Loss Worksheet” G. Ward

Philippians 3: ⁷ But whatever things were gain to me, these things I have counted as loss because of Christ. ⁸ More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them mere rubbish, so that I may gain Christ,

 

At what expense are corporations endeavoring record profits, along with pricing manipulation that appeals to our culture’s gargantuan appetite in greed (*cf. Prov.21:17)? Perhaps this may be the beginning of an unfair spiritual corollary to the Apostle Paul’s accolades, pertinent to his prior to being drawn to Christ as Lord (John 6:44), so very desirous to an escalating societal regard (both academic and religious), to thereafter calculate, and celebrate his new transformative experience through Christ, to then understand that what was once things valued - against being displaced by an intimate acquaintance with the Savior and afterwards, mattering far less when pre-occupied and overcome with/in how the Redeemer knew him, re-named and commissioned him, despite an arrogant and aloof past was greater than he ever imagined...

Is that your sentiment?