Is your life fruitful? Does it yield a rich harvest from which your Lord will derive eternal pleasure? If not, then perhaps the reason is that you are a corn of wheat afraid to die. You draw back from experiences which are designed, not to demean you, but to develop you. And if you are afraid to die, then, as Jesus put it, you remain only a single seed.
A women once came up to me after I had preached a sermon on this theme, and said: why is God so cruel in demanding so much of us? She meant – Why does God demand the one and only thing I own – me, myself? It seemed to her that she would be consenting to her own extinction. She saw only what she had to give up – not what she had to gain.
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