Some lessons don't come easy, and this one that I'm writing about this morning ("YOU Are NOT Your OWN!") has cost me everything, in regards to the learning curve that God has allowed me to experience, including untold - attacks, conflict, isolation, persecution, and suffering. Don't get me wrong, I agree with the Apostle Paul, when he said, "But whatever former things I had that might have been gains to me, I have come to consider as [one combined] loss for Christ's sake. Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage) of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]. For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Chr...