MORNING DEVOTION
OUR DAILY BREAD May 1, 2016 Sunday THE RESTORATION BUSINESS Dennis Fisher Philippians 3:1-8 I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ. —nkjv Philippians 3:8 After the apostle Paul turned his life over to the Savior, he realized his own achievements and abilities amounted to little more than trash. But Jesus transformed it all into something new and useful. Paul said, “Whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ” (Phil. 3:7-8). Having been trained in Jewish religious law, he had been an angry and violent man toward those who followed Christ (Acts 9:1-2). After being transformed by Christ, the tangled wreckage of his angry past was transformed into the love of Christ for others (2 Cor. 5:14-17). If ...