The way to make our lives

The way to make our lives eternal successes

"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for Me will find it." Matthew 16:25

People will say you are foolish to waste your golden life — to sacrifice yourself for the sake of others, or in Christ's cause. But was Christ Himself foolish, when He went to His cross?

Let the redeemed Church be the answer. Were the martyrs foolish, when they threw their lives away for Christ's sake? Ignatius said, when facing the fierce lions in the arena, "I am grain of God.

Let me be ground between the teeth of lions, if I may thus become bread to feed God's people!" Were such martyred lives wasted, thrown away? Is any life wasted which becomes seed to produce bread for the world?

The way to make nothing of our lives — is to be very careful of them. The way to make our lives eternal successes — is to do with them just what Christ did with His.

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