"Then JESUS said to HIS disciples, 'If you want to follow ME, deny yourself. Take up your cross and follow ME. For whoever chooses to save his life will lose it, but the one who loses his life, for MY sake, will find it. What will one gain by winning the whole world, if he destroys his soul? Or what can a person give, in exchange for his life?
Know, that the Son of Man will come, in the glory of HIS FATHER with the holy angels, and HE will reward each one according to his deeds. Truly, I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death, before they see the Son of Man coming in HIS kingdom.'" - Matthew 16:24-28
(Whoever chooses to save his life will lose it. JESUS draws attention to the great option of every human life: we cannot discover GOD; we cannot make a success of life without sacrificing it. All the rest is idle talk. The option terrifies us in the same measure that life for us seems promising. It is also the reason why marriage and family frighten many.
Christian freedom and happiness are found only in the joyous acceptance of the will of GOD which invites us to listen to HIS Son and follow HIM down the road and paths that HE traveled.)
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