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Friday, June 23, 2006


Mark 8:34b-36

Jesus said, If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

Using God’s Gift of Life

On March 23, 2006, three senior guys, who had been carpooling together since they got their driver’s licenses, headed to their high school in West Central Minnesota. That day was to be extra special. They and the rest of their basketball teammates were to play in the Minnesota State High School League Boys’ Basketball Tournament.

However, on the way to the school, a tragic car accident took place. The Lord took Adam home to heaven at the accident scene. He called Jon to his eternal home the next day.

A few weeks later Mike, Jon’s father, spoke to the still grieving students during a chapel assembly. He shared about the number of lives Jon had been able to save as a result of being an organ donor. Mike confessed that one night he lay awake thinking about the person who had received his son’s heart. A glut of emotions flooded his thoughts as he considered questions about that individual. Who was he or she? How old was he or she?

As Mike considered the various ways those questions could be answered, he grew angry. Other questions raced through his mind. What if this individual was making poor choices? What if she was an enemy of the cross? What if he was wasting the life that had been given to him as the result of his son’s death?

All of a sudden, Mike’s thoughts stopped in their tracks. He asked himself some of the same questions about the life that Jesus had given to him through his death on the cross.

According to my daughters’ description of this chapel speech, Mike looked at the teenagers gathered in that place and asked, “What are you doing with the new heart and life that Jesus gave to you?” The question is sobering and is still being processed as that group of kids wrestles with the death of their friends and consider the kind of lives that they are still called to live.

Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.” In his book Don’t Waste your Life, John Piper says it this way: “It is better to lose your life than to waste it.” You were made by God and for God. Don’t waste the life God gave you. Instead, use it in a way that will make him look good.

So how are u living your life now? :)

-Liang Ming

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