“For whoever would
save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the
gospel’s will save it.” Mark 8:35
This verse reminds me of something Jim Elliot once said – “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep
to gain what he cannot lose.”
Mark 8:35 and Jim Elliot’s quote are both very encouraging
to me. I am encouraged by them because I am reminded that, as I surrender my
life to Jesus each day, I am giving it for Him who won’t ever be taken away
from me. Some may think me foolish to leave my family and want to become a
missionary, and yet I know that this life the Lord has given me is not my own.
I know that as tempting as it may be to go back home and life a “normal” life,
that is not where the Lord wants me. I know that it is in losing my life for
Christ, in dying to myself, that I truly find life, and life abundantly.
It is so easy to feel
as though I am giving so much to be here, and yet it is in giving my life to
Jesus that I truly experience what it really is to live. There is so much joy
in obedience.
I want to live each and every day with a heavenly mindset.
Jesus won’t ever be taken away from me, and I want to live each day with that
truth in mind. I want to live each day with Heaven in mind so that sacrifices
in this present life will seem tiny in comparison to the glory that awaits me.
I want to give everything to love Jesus, because He gave
everything to love me. When my days on this earth are ending, I want to be able
to look back over my life and know that daily I lived my life by losing it for
Jesus. How I long to hear my Savior speak those sweet words to me, “Well done,
my good and faithful servant”!
Application: Today I will spend time in prayer once again
laying my fears and anxieties upon the altar, so that I may lose my life and
thus fully live it for Jesus.
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