C.S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity":

But there must be a real giving up of the self. You must throw it away "blindly" so to speak. Christ will indeed give you a real personality: but you must not go to Him for the sake of that. As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. You real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up you self, and you will find you real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of you ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of you being, and you will find eternal life. Keeep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be rasied from the dead . Look for youself , and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Risk Is Right—Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It

Risk Is Right—
Better to Lose Your Life
Than to Waste It

Therefore risk is woven into the fabric of our finite lives. We cannot
avoid risk even if we want to. Ignorance and uncertainty
about tomorrow is our native air. All of our plans for tomorrow’s
activities can be shattered by a thousand unknowns whether we
stay at home under the covers or ride the freeways. One of my
aims is to explode the myth of safety and to somehow deliver you
from the enchantment of security. Because it’s a mirage. It doesn’t
exist. Every direction you turn there are unknowns and things
beyond your control.
The tragic hypocrisy is that the enchantment of security lets
us take risks every day for ourselves but paralyzes us from taking
risks for others on the Calvary road of love. We are deluded
and think that it may jeopardize a security that in fact does not
even exist. The way I hope to explode the myth of safety and to
disenchant you with the mirage of security is simply to go to the
Bible and show that it is right to risk for the cause of Christ, and
not to is to waste your life.

*Don't Waste Your Life*
By John Piper

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I'm excited to have this blog, I've thought about starting one, and finally have gotten around to it.

Well, I hope that through this blog, you will see how awesome Jesus Christ is, and be encouraged to follow Him.

God bless!

**Something for you to think about. Just like our physical heart needs exercise to be healthy and grow, our spiritual heart needs the same. We need to stay in the Word, and keep talking to our Trainer, Christ. **