For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. Mark 8:35
“Meet Me in the morning stillness, while the earth is fresh with the dew of My Presence. Worship Me in the beauty of holiness. Sing love songs to My holy name. As you give yourself to Me, My Spirit swells within you till you are flooded with divine presence.
The world’s way of pursuing riches is grasping and hoarding. You attain My riches by letting go and giving. The more you give yourself to Me and My ways, the more I fill you with inexpressible, heavenly joy.”
Sarah Young in Jesus Calling (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2004) reading for 4 May. Special thanks to my faithful friend, Don Siecke, who shared today’s reading with me.
As a new week begins with Sunday, let us pause and give ourselves to the Lord afresh. Let us worship Him and thank Him for His generosity to us and for teaching us the way life and “Inexpressible, heavenly joy.”
When Jesus walked the earth, He shared this counterintuitive, world-shaking truth: “For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.”
In reality most people are trying to save their lives and they are losing everything. Only those who lose their lives for Jesus and the gospel will save it. But how do they learn this? Show and tell.
We get to show people with our lives and share with our lips that we have found the way to life, and it’s free for everyone. If you are grasping and hoarding, stop today. Let go. Give yourself to Jesus and His ways.
When he sent me this reading, Don wrote, “Thought you might like this.”
I replied. “Don, Thanks for thinking of me. I’ve had a good and busy week. Giving myself away in service and finding great joy. Thanks for sharing it. I will pass it on to the world. With you.”
When you give you never know the impact it can have. It may seem little but it might result in touching many to discover the pathway to inexpressible, heavenly joy.