Reflections

We may not like it, but Jesus put it bluntly. We cannot have it both ways.

Mark 8:35 (NIV) For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.

Either we are concerned only for ourselves, how we may selfishly gain things for ourselves or we willingly lose it for Jesus. If our concern is with how we get along in this world, we can never truly follow Jesus because we will simply end up compromising all the way. That's why God never gave us the option to choose both. It will never work. Either we hold onto our live as if it is everything. Or we willingly consider it as lost for the sake of gaining Christ.

John 2:15 (NIV) Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Which are we choosing?