Counting it as Garbage.

Our culture tells us that our belonging comes from pursuing the right people, places, and things.
The joy you can get looks broad, but its only an inch deep.
If you want to be on top of the 'food chain' you will have to fight for the world's acceptance and approval, to be conformed to the systems and traditions of this world that violate the true value and meaning of purity, decency, and anything that is meant to be good and sacred. The counterfeited joy in all of these only last for a while though, unless you drag along in vain in order to keep up.
But that's a secret kept aside as the world's shadows play hide and seek with you.

Instead of satisfying us, it betrays us, lies to us and leaves us hanging into the open to dry with out mercy.
The truth is: the more we pursued and craved anything or anyone else besides Christ himself, the more lost and thirst-tier we would be.
No wonder Moses ran from it, Jesus refused it, and Paul counted it as garbage and in giving it all up Jim Elliot gained what he cannot lose. Their eyes were fixed on something real and eternal. The great reward which is Christ himself.
The truth is, God doesn't promise us the world's greatest fortunes, but he promised to be our bread of life and the living fountain that satisfy our deepest thirst.
The question is
where do we go to quench our thirsty souls?
Is it at the fountain of fresh water?
Or would we rather choose to kneel down at the shore of salt water?