does this life have gain?

If this life has anything to gain at all, I count it loss. Philippians 3
Does this life have gain? I believe the answer to this question is a resounding YES!!!. This life has much to gain, but let me talk about that for a minute. So this life has two things in my opinion to be gained. The first thing is the items of this world that are given to us that are pure and simple, the things of this world, what we would count as worldly things. The second thing that this life has to gain is the things from above that are not of this world. The rest of this verse says I count it loss because of the surpassing power of knowing Jesus Christ my Lord. It is through Christ and for Christ and everything but Christ that we count as loss so we may know Christ. If we put anything in front of Christ, whether it be things of the world; money, power, health, prosperity, position etc. And even the things from above; spiritual gifts, blessings, gifting, etc. if we put any of these things in front of Christ we fail. We have our focus set in the wrong direction. Our gaze must be fixed on Christ, Christ is where we look, we look to him and his suffering, we look at everything that this life has to gain and we count it as loss. BECAUSE of Christ, It is because of Christ that we look at anything that we get, from this earth or from above, as loss in comparison to Christ. We live for Christ and never live for a pursuit of what he offers to us whether it be a gain of this world through his hand or even a gift of spiritual blessings. Even the things of eternity we will lay down as a gift at the feet of our savior for the death that he died for us.

Trust

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding…
Trust, a full reliance upon something or someone. FULLY RELYING. I find myself lacking in the trust needed to fully trust. Make sense? I hope so because I believe I am not the only one. The Lord is the only being in whom we can fully rely but I find that my own human lacking’s get in the way. I need the Lord to teach me to trust, but I must trust in order to learn trust. I feel I over think a lot of this, I need to step back and allow him to do what he can and will do. Increase my faith by teaching me how to trust. What I love about the verse above is the statement of “lean not on your own understanding”, because that explains the number one thing that gets in the way of trusting in the Lord…MY UNDERSTANDING. If God was limited by my understanding he would be really small. Praise be to God that He is not limited by my understanding, that the trust I can have and should have in Him is greater than anything my human understanding will ever be able to achieve.