If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father and will judge all people according to their deeds. (Matthew 16:25-27 NLT)
How many times have we used the statement “I am hanging in there!” ..I know I have, can’t say for the rest of you. Jesus is warning that we WILL lose if we try to hang on to OUR life, rather HE expects us to GIVE OUR LIFE for His sake. If we are selfish, if we seek our own way rather than Christ's way, if we cling to what we have or want, rather than giving our lives to God, this is a path that ultimately proves stultifying, lifeless, dead and which may (therefore) lead us to perdition, to ruin. Let our choices be always right !!
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