Losing Your Life in This World

Losing Your Life in This World

We have spoken much about losing one’s self-life in order to find it again. In the gospel of John we find the expression, “He who hates his life in this world.”

In the world they say that his business, his music, having fun, his work, or his farm is his life. Jesus speaks about having your life in your possessions.

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Where your mind is, where your thoughts are, that is where your life will be also.

The life of the world is in outward things. Unfortunately, believers can also have their life deep in the world.

They are also occupied, they are very interested, every one of them is very much apprehended of their possessions, so that when they are to present themselves before God’s face, all these things of the world follow along and rise up like a barrier and a wall against their connection with God. Their lives were anywhere but in God.

Therefore Jesus says that he who hates his life in this world shall lose it.

John says to the believers: “Do not love the world or the things in the world.” Many people love the things in the world in addition to loving Christ. The more a person is occupied with outward things, the more his love for the Father disappears.

The kingdom of God is within us!! Keep your life from ending up in the world and the things that are in the world, and you will always have your heart and mind kept in God.

Hate your life in this world.

If you notice that you begin to be attached to anything, hate this state.

In order to further a firm attachment to the Lord and not to anything else, Paul says that the one who buys anything shall be as the one who possesses nothing, and the one who is married shall be as the one who is not married, for this is proper for a believer.

Pay attention to your life; examine yourself—whether you are on your farm or in your business—when God wants to lay hold of you in order to speak with you, or when a brother wants to speak with you about God’s profound mysteries.

The life in God is our life. Therefore it says, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”