Mark 8:35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.
I have this special friend. We'll call him Englebert. He used to sit down at the break room table, and ask if there was more to life than this. The secret to finding life seems to be losing yours. Becoming so wrapped up in the gospel that you're purpose is to hide behind the cross and make Christ known. In Phil 3 Paul recounts all that he had going for him. He was a winner and doggone it people liked him. Except, perhaps Christians. Everything, he had going for him he counted as rubbish, once he found Christ. Nothing compared to the gift of righteousness God had given him through Jesus. Once he found Jesus, life as he knew it was ruined. Sometimes, to find life we got to let Christ ruin ours. When he becomes your treasure he spoils a lot of other things for you. Are you willing to let him ruin everything for you besides bringing glory to his name?
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