Phillips: giving oneself up in love

Wednesday, July 31, 2019
    Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
    —John 12:25 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The “good” man, the man whose god is righteousness, has as his life’s ambition the keeping of rules and commandments and the keeping of himself uncontaminated by the world. This sounds admirable, but, as the truth of Christ showed, the whole of such living, the whole drive and ambition, the whole edifice, is self-centred. That entire process of effort must be abandoned if a man is to give himself in love to God and his fellows. He must lose his life if he is ever going to find it.
    ... J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), When God was Man, London: Lutterworth Press:, 1954, p. 40 (see the book)
    See also John 12:25; Matt. 10:39; 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:23-24; 17:33; Acts 20:24
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I abandon my life to Your purposes. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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