Thursday, April 20, 2017

No greater love than to ‘lay down your life’

Morning: Psalm 146, 147; Ezekiel 37:1-14; Acts 3:11-26
Evening: Psalms 148, 149; John 15:12-27
Loving like Jesus means ‘laying down your life’ for your friends.  But you don’t have to die, literally. Rather, you make your life available to serve others.  You give up the need to control things, allow God to take hold of your life, allow the Spirit to move in you.  Quite the opposite of dying, this is really coming to life.  It’s a marvelous paradox of the Gospel … When you lay down your life, you come to life.  It’s what Jesus meant when he famously encouraged his disciples: “Those who lose their life for my sake will find it.”

Graham

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