Dear Friends
Most of us have spent time trying to find life. It’s not that we not alive physically, but as the Bible reading for this week says, Matthew 16:21-28, What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? (from The Message by Eugene Peterson). There is more to life, isn’t there, than the acquisition of things? We all know that fact, even as we go for the get(ting) everything you want.
So often when we finally get what we want or worked for, it is like winning the game, or national championship. Wonderful, then what? The new season starts in several months and the whole work of winning begins again! You can’t rest on your laurels, even for a moment
There is a trying to find life that continually haunts us, measures our present situation and level the gavel with the verdict: you haven’t found it yet. And the worst nightmare is that we may never truly discover life when the end come, but simply have gone through the motions of living.
There is a whole way of thinking that we better enjoy it now before it is too late. Too late to enjoy, too late to experience, too poor to indulge, too weak to participate in and experience. All of which means: were trying to find life and hope that somewhere along the time frame granted us, we will find life.
Here’s How to Find Life’ Whoever loses his life for Jesus will find it! There is it, how to find life. You find life by losing life for Jesus. Putting Jesus ahead of everything else. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. We are to seek and save the lost. He came so we could have a full life. He has, he will and he has promised he will, take care of us and provide for all our needs, so our needs have been taken care of.
If we have prayed, give us this day our daily bread, we have stated that we believe he will give us all the things, the stuff, the accruements of life, so that we can be servants to others, so that we can fight the good fight of faith, so that we can run the race that is set before us with perseverance, so that we can take his redeeming grace to people who are going down the wide-ranging and easy road that leads to destruction, that will never give life but only death.
Give up trying to find life. And lose it, and discover what it means to live
Solomzi