What WILL You Do?

# 512 - Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 8:35 "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.

The King James says, “whosoever WILL save his life,” and in using that terminology Jesus is presenting a choice to us. WILL you (1) choose to deny yourself, (crucify the old man in the waters of baptism) WILL you (2) choose to pick up your cross, (deal with the afflictions that come from being connected to Him) and WILL you (3) choose to follow Him, (endure to the end?) All three are linked to eternal life in heaven as you receive Christ in your soul and persevere with Him to the end.

Or WILL you choose to save your old life, the old man in you by refusing to drown him in the waters of baptism, or WILL you be baptized but refuse to remain in the faith because of the tribulations brought about because of your connection to Jesus?

Those who WILL to preserve the old man, may escape the trials and tribulations associated with following Christ, but if they bolt from the faith, the life that they are so desperately trying to save with all its temporary perks will be lost on that Last Day because they chose (WILLED) to feed and nurture the old man in them rather than the new. What WILL you do with the old man in you? Do away with him and live, or....................

Father, this is a daily struggle for all of us. Help us to daily reckon the old man in us to be dead, and feed the new Man in us through the fountain of Your Word, that we might persevere in the faith and be saved.