Day 51: Sacrificial Service

July 1 • Bible reading from Philippians 3:7-12 Sacrificial Service

Behaviour: "God’s plans and priorities determine my life decisions."

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Text:

But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more,
I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my
Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that
which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his
sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from
the dead.
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

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Take a minute:

What did you ‘lose’ to become a Christian?

Are those things truly ‘rubbish’ in your eyes yet? Pray they will become so.