Lord Jesus, who offers to call us friends, may we understand the great value of knowing you, that all other things would pale in comparison, and we would become willing to sacrifice much in order to build relationship with you, who loved us to the end and now intercedes for us before the throne of heaven in the Holy Spirit. Amen.
‘Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.’ – Phil. 3:7-8