These last two weeks, we've focused on the "treasuring God" part of that slogan. Do you remember why we treasure God from Philippians 3?... Because nothing surpasses the worth of knowing Jesus! If nothing surpasses that worth than he is indeed our greatest treasure.
I'd love to hear what God impressed on your heart from these messages. What was the big takeaway for you?
Let me ask one more question: God, in his mercy, doesn't ask most of us actually lose everything to know him. I believe this passage makes clear we need to be ready to, but, it seems, God doesn't put that ultimately to the test. Unless you are a guy like Job, we don't really lose everything... except when we die (think about that). But we need to be ready to.
So here's the question: how do you cultivate in your heart a readiness to lose it all for Jesus when he so often doesn't take everything? How do you make this real?
Pastor Brian
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God has really blessed me through this study in Philippians. His Word is so good. To answer the last question - to cultivate a "readiness to lose it all", I'm striving to choose gratefulness for the things I do have,(while refusing to feel entitled to anything and everything), for contentment in my circumstances, whether daily-trivial things or intense challenges, and overall to have a greater spirit of giving - of my time, my possessions, my energy so as to hold all things with an open hand and to see all things as His to begin (and end) with.
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