Ready to Rescue Day 36

³⁴ And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. ³⁵ For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it."

Praise God that He has called us into a relationship with Himself and onto a mission that is beyond ourselves. Repent of your efforts to scratch out a life for yourself apart of Christ, which leads us away from real life which is for Christ's sake and the sake of the gospel. Ask God to help you to daily deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus. Yield to the reality that real life is found in God's way, not our ways.