He who loves his life

But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. – John 12.23-26

As beleivers we know now that we live in two worlds. We have to live our physical, temporal, visible, fleshly life while ate same time we live in the Kingdom of God is a spiritual, eternal, invisible life which deals with our soul.

Our souls and our flesh do battle every single day.


We are driven every day by every thing we see around us to go after that which satisfy’s our own life. There is very little out there that draws us to think about eternity. If we could only get the best car and the nicest house and the newest phone and the most advanced computer and dress in the finest clothes everything will surely be better. If we have something to show at the end that will surely show that we have achieved a life well lived.

But what good will that do for eternity? What will that do when we are dead and cold and lying in the ground. What will it profit us if we could somehow gain the whole world, but in the end we lost our soul?

The question is rhetorical. Obviously if after gaining all the good of this world we lose our soul, our life will be a life well wasted.

Our goal ought to be to daily be preparing our souls for eternity. Everything temporal is going to die with us. Only what is done for Christ will last for eternity.