Don’t run out of time before you die; die on the cross before you run out of time. Jesus taught us that we cannot live until we die. There is no resurrection until there has been a death. There is no rising without going down. There is no blossoming of self until there is a denying of self. A kernel of wheat dies that it might live; our deaths become a germination to a new form. There is no going higher until we have gone lower. There is no living in the highest sense of the word without the cross.
“If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.” Luke 9:23 (NASB)
