Gaining Through Losing
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. —Mark 8:35
For everything you gain, you must give up something else. There is no gaining without losing.
Here is a sobering truth: To live on planet earth you must do injury or violence to another and/or to the world, either inadvertently or deliberately. For example: Vegetarians detest killing animals for food, yet they kill trees for firewood or to build houses. If you get a job, someone else doesn’t get it. If you’re the valedictorian of your class, someone else has not made it. To win someone must lose. To clean something, something else must become dirty. To think you can live in this world without doing harm to something or someone is absurd. To live you must prey upon the world.
Just as something on earth had to die so you might live, Jesus Christ also had to die so you might live. “Who died for us, that…we should live” (1 Thess. 5:10). “And that he died for all, that they which live” (2 Cor. 5:15).
Here is a sobering truth: To live on planet earth you must do injury or violence to another and/or to the world, either inadvertently or deliberately. For example: Vegetarians detest killing animals for food, yet they kill trees for firewood or to build houses. If you get a job, someone else doesn’t get it. If you’re the valedictorian of your class, someone else has not made it. To win someone must lose. To clean something, something else must become dirty. To think you can live in this world without doing harm to something or someone is absurd. To live you must prey upon the world.
Just as something on earth had to die so you might live, Jesus Christ also had to die so you might live. “Who died for us, that…we should live” (1 Thess. 5:10). “And that he died for all, that they which live” (2 Cor. 5:15).
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Amen