“If you lose your life for my sake you will find it.” Jesus
We ordinarily think of life before death, but Jesus challenges us to think in terms of death before life. A part of His core teaching is that we must all die to selfishness before we can know life as God intends. We must also die in a number of ways to this life before we can experience all that the next has to offer. This is just another way of telling us to give our lives to things which can follow us beyond the grave and not waste time on temporal trinkets that eventually pass away.
Just me trying to be honest with God.
