loss

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. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard 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 one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. (Philippians 3:7-11, NRSV)

rubbish…

refuse, garbage, worthless material, foolishness, or foolish discourse…

That is what I count all things compared to Christ and Him crucified!

I can have all the riches in the world and have houses and cars and people all around, but if I have not Christ in my life, that I acknowledge and follow, I have nothing. My life is filled with rubbish…

And this word here is translated many ways, refuse, dung, garbage, filth, dog dung… You get the point.

This word used here by Paul is the only use of the word in the New Testament. It is the word σκύβαλα. It is a street term, the language of the day.

Paul was using it to get the attention of the Philippians to make the point of how little value everything else in his life had compared to what Christ had done for him and continued to do for him.

So is everything else except Christ in your life shit, because that is what Paul said it was, and nothing can hold a candle to the love we get from Christ!