“Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” I’ve heard that a thousand times. Today I read something similar from Oswald Chambers. He said, “Jesus does not ask us to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him. (John 15:13,15)…..It is far easier to die than to lay down the life day in and day out with the sense of the high calling….Salvation is easy because it cost God so much, but the manifestation of it in my life is difficult. God saves a person and endues that person with the Holy Spirit, and then says in effect- ‘Now, work it out, be loyal to Me, whilst the nature of things around you would make you disloyal.’”
There is a difference between dying and laying down your life. Dying is once; laying down your life is every day. Dying is giving up yourself; laying down your life is taking up the life of Christ. It is much easier to die for someone than to live for someone.
Dying is easy. Laying down your life is hard. And that’s no joke.
There is a difference between dying and laying down your life. Dying is once; laying down your life is every day. Dying is giving up yourself; laying down your life is taking up the life of Christ. It is much easier to die for someone than to live for someone.
Dying is easy. Laying down your life is hard. And that’s no joke.
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