Mark 8:36 (NLT) And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?

Have you ever seen something odd lying by the side of the road and thought, “How could someone lose that? Surely if you lost ___ you would notice it was gone!” Well, someone in my neighborhood probably found a pair of purple and white striped baby socks on their sidewalk today and thought, “How could someone lose these and not know it?” It’s easier than you think. (I cannot keep socks on my baby girl’s feet!)

We were all at one time (before we were saved by grace through faith) in the position of losing our souls, due to our own selfish and sinful ways. So we should be very empathetic to those around us that are still in this position—and they don’t even know it! Yet, most of the time I shake my head in disbelief that the lost choose to be lost.

Lord, please give me compassion for the lost, and show me what it looks like to give up my life for the sake of the Good News.

If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. Mark 8:35 (NLT)

-Kevi

 

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