The Daily Devo: Taking Out the Trash

Step One: List all your assets. Not merely financial. Include all your degrees, memberships, professional associations, certifications. If you are my age, include your spouse's accomplishments; and those of all your offspring. Everything you have going for you and all you feel good about or take pride in. Step 2: Read Philippians 3:7-11 (ESV): But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order 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 comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Step 3: God and Father, this makes me think of the words of C.S. Lewis who opined, "A man thinks he is finding his place in the world when really it is finding its place in him." Teach me, Lord, to genuinely look upon all I am and have and assign it it's proper place in the scheme of things: filth; trash over against the accomplishment of simply being found in you, Lord Jesus. Amen.