giving & getting

Mark 8:34 Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, Jesus said,


"If any of you wants to be my follower, you must put aside your selfish ambition, take up your cross, and follow me.

35 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it.

36 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?

37 Is anything worth more than your soul?

38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."


Until about 2008, I read those words & saw only what I was giving up.

But in 2008,God showed me not what we are giving up but what we are gaining.

When we let go of our life, it frees God to implement the life He's dreamed for us -  a life He dreamed up a gajillion years ago, a life that fits into the fabric of eternity, a life that is both suited to us & to the overall BIG picture of God's connection with humankind.


So, does it make sense to run our lives ourselves - we who are finite beings?

Or does it make better sense to allow our lives to be run by the infinite God of the universes?


Think about it...