LOSING TO GAIN

Sometimes God will expose us to loss so that we may realize He is our only gain. Conversely, what we may consider gain is actually a loss when it keeps us from Christ. "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" (Philippians 3:7-8).