Have you ever come to the point where you realized that living for Jesus require a process of self denial? The call to follow Jesus is a choice to walk with Him up to the mountain top of obedience, humility and submission to His will. And dying to one's self require a larger than life kind of love for Him. It means, it is a stage by stage course where you can able to lay down your self-centered YOU into a CHRIST CENTERED ME.
Only in dying for ourselves that we can gain access to life of victory and purpose. Paul beautifully penned this undying truth in his writing to churches.
2 Corinthians 4:10: “Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”
In here, he remind and encourage the early believers in the church of Corinth to strive more in living a selfless life for Jesus and he sets himself as an example of that dying man—He really died for himself and so that He may live worthy of God’s calling. And what he has considered important and valuable in life before, now for him it is nothing but rotten garbage.
Listen as he poured out His heart and extend this truth in Philippians 3:7-11, He said:
7 "But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; 11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead."
Brethren, Jesus died for us so that we may gain life. He bought us with a high price, His precious blood. Our life now is not for us and it is not about us—IT IS ABOUT JESUS WHO LIVES IN US! Make your life counts to the purpose of God, love Him, serve Him! Submit your own self-will to God, so He can transform you to the mage of His Son. GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST!
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