"I Consider Everything A Loss Compared To The Surpassing Greatness Of Knowing CHRIST JESUS."

What would you ask for?
(Joseph Alleine, "Alarm to the Unconverted" 1671)

"That night GOD appeared to Solomon 
in a dream and said: What do you want? 
Ask, and I will give it to you!" 2 Chronicles 1:7


If GOD would give you your choice, 

as HE did to Solomon--

what would you ask for?

Go into the gardens of pleasure, and 

gather all the fragrant flowers there--

would these satisfy you?

Go to the treasures of mammon--

suppose you may carry away 

as much as you desire.

Go to the towers, 

to the trophies of honor--

and become a man of renown.

Would any of these, would all 

of these satisfy you, and make 

you to count yourself happy? 

If so, then certainly you are 

carnal and unconverted.

Converting grace turns 

the heart from its idols--

to the living GOD. 

Before conversion, the man minded 

his farm, friends, pleasures more 

than CHRIST. He found more 

sweetness in his merry company, 

worldly amusements, earthly delights--

than in CHRIST. Now he says, 

"But whatever was to my profit I now 
consider loss for the sake of CHRIST. 
What 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!" Philippians 3:7-8 

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