I'm ok with a loss

So...recently my computer crashed and after talking to my favorite overseas Dell specialists, they have pronounced it as brain dead.  Well, they just said I would have to wipe everything off and it would be as though it just came from the factory.  Oh boy was I mad when I heard that, had an attitude with the man on the phone and everything.  How are you gonna tell me that everything that I have had on my computer for the past nearly 4 years will be wiped out just like that...that's a lot of stuff!  However, after I woke up the next morning, God really had to show me that I wasn't losing anything that I didn't already need to get rid of.  Matter of fact, all of the really important documents that I truly needed right now were saved on a jump drive.  Besides, did I really need those English papers from freshman year, or that fifteen page research paper that I wrote...honestly, not really. 

 

This led me to think about the other things that I have been forced to let go of as my relationship with God grew stronger.  In Philippians 3: 7-9 it states:

 7But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8What 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 9and 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.

 

To me, this basically means that if what I had was not adding to the purpose that God has for my life, then I'm ok with the loss.  You see, over the years I have had to lose a lack of confidence, low self-esteem, a judgmental attitude, a desire to please others at all times, and many other things.  But those things that I lost and will continue to lose are all worth it because that empty space that was left over was able to be filled with a little more of God in my life. 

 

So, what things are you ready to lose?

 

**A special shout out to all of my graduating seniors...104 days until classes are done (Yes, I have officially started the countdown)!

Renee