As a Christian, I owe it to Jesus Christ to live for him,
to make him my consuming passion and the driving force in my life.
To do this, I have to die to my own desires daily.
I have to crucify the urge that measures every action and decision
around what is best for me.
to make him my consuming passion and the driving force in my life.
To do this, I have to die to my own desires daily.
I have to crucify the urge that measures every action and decision
around what is best for me.
Paul is eloquent regarding this fact:
"We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body"
(2 Corinthians 4:10). Just as Jesus went to the cross, so I must go to the cross,
always considering myself as carrying around "the death of Jesus" so that his new life
—his motivations, his purposes, his favor—
might dominate in everything I do.
Gary Thomas
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