Love Yourself And Forfeit Your Life.

The other side to the above statement is hate yourself and gain your life.
It is true; you need to cater for yourself. You need to nurture and make yourself healthy. All these are necessary.

What we are saying is beyond the above. It bears directly on the issue of life. Life means more than the bare necessities of existence. We are talking life abundance. It is this life abundance that makes one a living soul.
When you possess life you live beyond this physical life. There is the hope of after-life.

What is life?
Life means union, union with God the source of life. God is the fountain of life and Christ is the channel of connection.
Hating your life really means forfeiting your life for Christ.

How?
By not living to please self.
By not been conformed to the ideals of the world.
By throwing away the yoke of self governance and putting on the yoke of Christ.
By not been egocentric but Christo-centric yielding unto Christ Jesus.
By been led by the Holy Spirit.
Christ said that if you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give it up for me, you will find it.

If you really love yourself in the real sense of the word, you’ll gladly give it up for Christ. He died for you. He has made you both Priest and King for God. He is coming again for you, so live not to self but for the glory of Him that purchased you for God.

Leafcutter Ant and Destiny

On the way to work, I found, by chance, an ant. It was not an ordinary ant, it was the kind which manages to load much weight; a leafcutter ant. I passed very quickly by her. I think that the creature did not even realize my glance, since it was walking at quick steps. The insect was loading an enormous leaf when compared to her small size. Great strength was being invested in that leaf, since the leafcutter ant cuts pieces of leaves and loads them to the nests. Those pieces feed the funguses that constitute her exclusive food.

There was only a problem: she was out of the track to the ants' nest. Normally, these ants walk on tracks that drive to their houses, but this one was lost in the middle of the sidewalk. Her destiny was practically drawn. I may have seen and removed my feet, but who guarantees that all the other people will see her and have enough compassion to keep her live?

I got thinking about that ant while continuing my way to the work. In her "head", she was doing the right thing (loading leaves), investing great strength in that (the leaf was bigger than the body of the ant) and looking for her final destiny (the ants' nest). But she was sincerely mistaken.

In spite of all her sincerity, determination and strength, all her investment was predestined to failure because she was out of her original track. Probably, she would never reach the ants' nest. All her pledge and investment would be wasted and death would be her end.
How many times are we like that ant? Aren't we, at this right moment, behaving like her? Aren't we sincerely mistaken, sincerely wrapped with something that is not going get us anywhere because we are out of the originally predicted way?

It is not worth to invest strength and to do the right thing if my final destiny will not be carried out. Any sincere effort will be useless. Where I am going to? In what am I investing my strength?

Although it may seem idiot, I pray so that that small creature in the sidewalk, that has made me wake up to some things, can meet again, finally, her original track, her final destiny. When she finally reaches the bottom of the ants' nest and deposit that piece of leaf in the funguses creation, her mates will hear her report:

"I was almost giving up, dying and abandoning myself to what they call a defeat. But, in some way that I do not understand, I realized that the way where I was following was wrong. It would not take me to my final destiny. At all of a sudden, I understood that I should stop some time at a safe place, far from the hurried feet in the sidewalk, rest a little and look with more perseverance for the original way. I knew that would not be an easy task. Suffering is not pleasant, but it shows itself the best teacher. I felt myself lost. It was at this moment that I realized that the sincerity is not everything. It is necessary to find the final purpose of the things and then to pursue it."

Angelo Faleiro writes for fun. He likes to think about christian life and our day-by-day, so he is always wrinting about matters people like to talk about. He graduatted in Psychology in 2005, is married and father of a boy.

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