Daily Radio Bible - September 26th, 21

If you hang on to your life, making it about you insisting on your own way, you will lose your way. In the end, all your effort to gain will be a loss. The world's siren song is self, and success. We think these are the marks of real living, the fruit of our hard work, the result of our cunning and sweat, and our dedication. The world tells us that we will win and live with big bank accounts, big churches and big egos. That's the way of the world and too often it can become the way of our churches, the way of our own lives. But Jesus points to something else, he points to the way of his kingdom. He says that we can gain all over the world and lose our soul, the way to live. The way to win in this kingdom is to daily take up across people who carry crosses are giving evidence of their death. Jesus says, I tell you the truth unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone, but its death will produce many new kernels of plentiful harvest of new lives. The life released in death, is released in resurrection power, and not the power of the flesh. And its results are abundant. The results our lives awakened to the love of God who comes to deliver us from our success and cravings for life on our own terms, those things that lead to nothing in the end, Jesus shows us the way to his kingdom, he shows us that he is the way to life and love and abundance, by finding our lives in Him to be awakened to the life that is ours in him. But we must turn away from the siren songs of this world. In turn up, the sound and music of heaven, the sound and the song of our Lord and Christ, who tells us follow me and you will truly live. And that's a prayer that I have for my own soul. That's a prayer that I have for my family for my wife and my daughters and my son. And that's a prayer that I have for you may be so

You are loved!