True Loss and Real Gain
Thursday, 31st week in Ordinary Time
Phil 3: 3-8a; Lk 15: 1-10
The World today judges everything against categories like gain or loss or profit or returns! Which is the true loss and what would be real gain - the Apostle today clarifies it in no uncertain terms. I consider everything as a loss or as rubbish, when it comes to knowing Christ, gaining favour with the Lord, growing in relationship with the Lord. The question fundamentally is about one's choices and priorities.
The Gospel clarifies the choices and priorities of the Lord...for the Lord, God's children matter the most! Whether one has been into sin all one's life (like the sheep that stray), or one considers oneself worth nothing (just a single dime), for the Lord that one person is worth the whole world, is worth giving up everything even God's only son!
True loss is the loss of relationship with the Lord and Real gain is gaining life in the Lord. Whether we live or die, we do it for Christ.