“Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith–that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.” (ESV – Read the chapter)
What would you be willing to do to get the thing you want most? That kind of question appears in many different contexts. But, its focus nearly every time is aimed at discovering the lengths to which someone is willing to go to achieve some highly desired end. And most often, the kinds of things that are imagined for the person to do fall outside and even well beyond the borders of what was previously considered morally acceptable. But, the goal is sufficiently desirable that violating previously held moral and ethical boundaries is seen as a worthy price to pay. Consider the basic plot of a story like the Taken trilogy. A man’s daughter is kidnapped and he makes clear to her kidnappers that he will stop at literally nothing to get her back safely. The ends in this case justify the means deemed necessary to reach them. Read the rest…
