BBD 08.21.03 Getting Rid Of The Rubbish
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08.21.03
Getting Rid Of The Rubbish
But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 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 and be found in Him, not
having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is
through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that
I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His
sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to
the resurrection from the dead. - Philippians 3:7-11.
Today seems to be the day of the VIRUS or maybe it would be better stated
VIRUSES. Out of a couple of hundred emails I received to begin the day all
but about 50 were infected with a virus thankfully deleted by Norton
Anti-virus. Have you noticed how some days are like the incoming viruses we
have faced today? So many days seem filled with small meaningless and
worthless tasks and events, which keep us from doing anything eternally
worthwhile. Just when we think, we can do something or say something of
eternal value the phone rings or someone knocks on the door. The flood of
the urgent meaningless things continues to flood into our lives unabated.
What can we do about the flood of urgent virtually meaningless things, which
can at times dominate our lives? What do you do with infected email viruses?
Delete them! Avoid them! Block them! As Paul says, "count them as loss."
"Count them as rubbish." We must be aggressive in our pursuit of those
things of eternal value. If we just sit and wait for the labor of God to
come to us we will be covered up with the meaningless, worthless, "rubbish",
and as with Paul, we must not let that happen.
To overcome the "rubbish" we must rise up and move forward. It may be that
we will have to move around, over, or through the "rubbish" but above all we
must not stand still being bogged down, and covered up until we are at a
standstill. Rise up! Get up! Move forward! Do something! That we may "know
Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His
sufferings.." Let us count all things loss of this world. Let us be looking
for those things, and working for those things as co-laborers with Him that
will have eternal value. Let us look for where He is at work and join Him in
that labor. Please don't let all the "rubbish" of this world keep you from
the eternally vital work at hand.
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