Living for Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 " For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this; that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those that live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised."

We were saved from HAVING to live for ourselves. That really goes against the grain of my natural thinking. But the truth from the Word of God is that living for Him is not only better than living for ourselves, but living for ourselves is something that we have/had to be rescued from... as in, it is a really bad thing. :-)

Matthew 10:39 "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it