Losing Yourself

This was the title of my message Sunday. It was taking a look at Jesus' message in Matthew 10:39, "Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it." NRSV

It was a comment on the challenges Jesus brought to the status quo, the disruption of life as we knew it, and even our response to the religion of the day. He didn't come to bring peace?

No, he did not come not to separate families, but it would happen anyway.

Rather Jesus wants us to stop being what our families tell us to be and living into the personas that are placed on us by others, friends, colleagues, the media and even the whole world! Because that's not who we really are.

But who are we, then?

Jesus said the only way to find that is to empty ourselves of all of that other stuff. To take off the masks and stop the masquerade living. He simply wants us to strip our souls bare, to the very vulnerable most basic of selves; to empty our own expectations...


...and embrace Him alone and completely.

It's a challenge for us, because the outcome of this process isn't in our power, it's in His.

But it's the only way to find our real life, whole life, eternal life.

Peace ><>
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