For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it — the discipleship paradox: the natural self-preservation instinct leads to the loss of what makes life meaningful, while the counter-instinctive self-giving for Jesus' sake leads to genuine life. The for me grounds the self-giving in the specific relationship with Jesus — not generic self-denial but the particular orientation toward the one who goes before to the cross.

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