True Christianity is based upon obedience to the command of Jesus to “Repent and Believe” and on confessing Jesus Christ as Lord (as Paul explains in Romans 10). But making Jesus Lord requires self-death.
A true Christian must be willing to sacrifice everything in this life for the sake of the next.
–Bruce Shelley
Matthew 16:24-25
Jesus: “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”
May we be willing to lose our lives – to sacrifice everything in this life – for the sake of finding our lives with Him for eternity.