Reflections
If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. (Matt. 16:24-25)
Millions today are being taught that God wants to bless their lives, and they are being given instructions as to how to get Him to do it. Yet Jesus states here that we are to LOSE our lives for His sake. How likely is it that God will bless a life that we are told to lose?
To LOSE your life for Jesus’ sake means to relinquish your right to yourself; to abandon yourself to God; to leave yourself alone; to actually embrace the Truth that you are no longer your own. In short, lose yourself to God and let Him determine the outcome. We can do this all at once as a commitment. But then God must work it out through the work of the Cross – and we must believe and obey.
If we want Christ to be formed in us — if we want to come into the realization of the Son of God in an inward way — we have to lose our lives into the hands of God. This is not merely a religious principle to follow. It is because of the nature of things — we cannot live in Christ from out of the Adam life. We have to find Him as our life, and learn to live by faith from out of Jesus Christ. Lose your life and find Christ as your life and you will be finding the One in whom God has given ALL blessing
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