I knew that fully embracing the person and work of Jesus Christ would cost me the very identity that had been forged for me at the dinner tables of the Muslim community. Until I was able to see that Christ is worth the cost, I was not willing to pay it. But eventually, I understood what the famed Jim Eliot, who lost his life in service of the gospel, meant when he wrote, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”118 Eliot rephrased Paul’s words that “for his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ”
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