Paul was saying that the best life had to offer and the greatest accomplishments and pursuits of any man, when compared to knowing God, ranked in the same category as manure. Yet here he was still seeking to know God more (Phil. He had traveled the world and been used of God as few men ever had or ever will be. He had been a Christian for decades at the time he wrote this. Paul wasn’t writing just about the time before he was born again. People knew him and they wanted to be like him. He wasn’t turning from a life of failure and counting that as “dung.” He was one of the most educated and accomplished men of his day. He hadn’t hit rock bottom with nowhere else to go. “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.” ![]() The Apostle Paul put it this way in Philippians 3:8: ![]() Without that, everything else loses meaning. Certainly many things contribute to a full and happy life, but I hope all believers would agree that knowing God is absolutely the greatest and most important of all. ![]() If I were to ask a group of people what’s the greatest thing in life, I would probably get as many answers as there were people.
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