Seed for Dec 3

What did it mean when Jesus said, “Any man that saves his life, loses it, and any man that loses his life, for my sake or the gospel, finds it”? What does it mean to lose your life? It all has to do with self-abandonment, or dying to self and allow Jesus to live in your stead. We live in a world of “I, me, me, mine” where life is all about “me”. It is as if the Universe revolves around “me”. But this is not so in the Christian life. We are to reckon ourselves dead. We are to lose our lives, and present a body (mine) to do His will. For He did not want the blood of bulls and goat, but a body to do His will. When my own life becomes a useless as a dead man, then God, by His Spirit, can manifest the life of Jesus in me. That is how one loses his life, and yet gains Life. We lose our Adamic, self-willed life, and count our selves as dead, and then present this little piece of clay to God to do His will in me, as it is done in heaven. Is that not the prayer of many church goers, “Thine will be done in earth (me) as it is in heaven…”? But few mean what they recite. Paul said, “Reckon yourself to be dead to sin, and alive to Christ”. That is the hidden secret of Christian living. Christ Jesus in me, living and doing His will in me, just as it is done in heaven. With me being dead, the resurrection Life will work in me. And that is His desire for all His creation! Be blessed.

Billy and Jan Wells