The determination to minister in love to
anyone who enters our workday world produces an unexpected by-product.
Throughout the New Testament, we find a principle of gain and loss, of life and
death. “In seeking the glory of God and the good for our fellow-creatures,” as Jonathon
Edwards put it, “you take the surest way to have God seek your interests, and
promote your welfare.”
“I tell you the truth,” Jesus said, “unless
a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed.
But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose
it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal
life.” (John 12:24-25)
The caring soul can’t lose. Make your
priority other people’s and you’ll add a foot to your spiritual stature. Learn
to feel the throb of another’s heart and your own will beat stronger. Lose your
life in the lives of the needy for Jesus’ sake and you’ll find it. Leave your
self-interests and personal preoccupations behind and see what wonderful things
God has in store for you.
-- Steve & Lois Rabey, General Editors, in “Side by Side:
Disciple-Making for a New Century”
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