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"I came that they might have life, and have it to the full."
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| Conformity with Christ |
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| We must keep our gaze fixed on Christ, imitate him, and
be so steeped in his spirit that it will no longer be we who live, but
Christ who truly lives in us.
We should bear in mind that the Lord has told us:
"Anyone who loses his life for my sake and
for the sake of the gospel will save it." (Matthew
10:39)
It is then fitting that we strive to rejoice in all sorts of hardship:
hunger, thirst, nakedness, hard work, slander, persecution and every
tribulation, so that we may be able to say with the Apostle Paul:
"It is out of the question that I should boast at
all, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom
the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." (Galatians
6:14)
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