"Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?" - Luke 9:23-25
Christ affirms that the way to follow Him is to forgo ourselves. This makes perfect sense, especially if we understand that our ways are not Gods ways (Isaiah 55:8). The way to goodness is to live like the One who is Goodness itself. Yet, our culture tells us otherwise, in so many ways. For the times we have "forfeited" our selves for the gains the world offers, let us truly turn back to God and commit to learning His ways, by means of our self denial this season.
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