Matthew 10:39 Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
Romans 5:3-5 And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not disappoint us.
I don’t want to lose my life. I don’t seek suffering. I don’t believe Jesus sought out death. But I have learned that the greatest life comes in working for Christ not self. When suffering does happen and we learn from its lashes, so to speak, then the gifts that suffering brings into our lives are of incredible richness. Even the worst the world can deal out, the execution of Jesus as a criminal on a cross brings forth the Resurrection and birth of the Church.
Thanks be to God.
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