Give Your Life Away

To give our life away is our ultimate calling and purpose. Especially if we are Christ followers and want to truly live in connection with God we must have the mind of Christ.

If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a

crucifixion.

Philippians 2: 1-8

True miracles can take place in our life if we can get to a place where we think like Christ! That is that we competely forget about "what is in it for me" and we totally look at how we can serve. When we do this we realize God, know God, and truly expereince God. Then, when we are truly not worried about someone else's praise or the gaining of riches, we have those things show up in our lives. However, we are not attached to them to find purpose or passion, so we give them away and continue to serve. This I believe is the meaning of the following verses:

"If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God's giving. People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. Matthew 6:30-33 (Message)

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew6:33 (NIV)

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 10:39 (NIV)

This is when we find God. We do not gain things by checking off the spiritual "to do" list. It is an ironic message that once we truly give up the things we thought we needed to find ourselves, we gain them all. We gain by thinking and living as Christ daily. Remember that true nobility, or privilege, is about being better than you used to be, not being perfect. Namaste.