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..."
It struck me as I read this that the illustration of taking up a cross daily & following Jesus may have been confusing to the people Jesus said this to b/c he had not yet been sentenced to be crucified. The idea of Him dying so that we may all live was still foreign (at least to most people i think). So to me, these verses are even more important to us today b/c we do know what Jesus was talking about b/c of the example he left. I think I'm especially impacted by the statement "whoever wants to save his life will lose it". There are many times I make decisions based on what I want for my life vs what God may want for my life. I think to myself, I gotta do this or else I won't have a "life". But I really need to be thinking how can I give my "life" to God and therefore have the life he wants for me.
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