I was reading a note by a friend today, and it commented something to the effect of "You [God] ask only for me". There are so many days that I want to keep parts of me because for some reason I seem to think I can do a better job. Most recently, my love life (or lack thereof) has been the most difficult to surrender. In light of all this, I started to wonder at the difference that one little word, "only", makes. If He asks only for me, what else could He ask of me that he's not? The most staggering answer He brought to mind was that He could have asked me to pay for my sins. Taking into account the extreme debt I owe Him, paying only myself seems quite appealing. I want to keep that at the forefront of my mind each day as I lay down myself and take up my cross to follow Him.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it." Matthew 16:23-25
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