“Anyone who loves their life will lose it,
while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal
life. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will
be.”
(John
12:25-26)
A couple
of years ago I stumbled across a video on YouTube in which an American pastor
was holding a long rope in his hand. He said “Imagine your life as one long,
never-ending rope. The first five centimetres are our life on earth, and the
never-ending rest is our life afterwards. How we live this tiny bit decides how
we spend eternity. We must live for the big bit.” This video really impacted me,
and I still love sending the link of this ‘rope illustration’ to friends. I
love it because it sounds so crazy, but yet so amazingly obvious. I love it
because it describes what it means to live with purpose; for the world that is
to come.
I think
this is what Jesus means when He says that we should hate our life on earth. He
is not saying we shouldn’t value our life and make the best of the life He has
given us, but He is saying that our joy must be in the world that is to come.
The reason why we love our life now
should be because of our eternal life. We should realise that without God, our
lives would have no love, no purpose, no joy… therefore we should hate it.
Living
for the next life is a big, for the world, crazy thing to decide to do. But
Jesus is telling us that that is what we are doing when we follow Him, and He
wants us to take it seriously.
“The Lord is my helper; I will not be
afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?”
What can mere mortals do to me?”
(Hebrews
13:6)
Celui qui s'attache à sa propre vie la perda, mais celui qui fait peu de cas de sa vie en ce monde la gardera pour la vie éternelle.
(John 12.25)
Celui qui s'attache à sa propre vie la perda, mais celui qui fait peu de cas de sa vie en ce monde la gardera pour la vie éternelle.
(John 12.25)
Naomi Pitts
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