When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Galatians 2:20 – 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
A man cannot successfully serve Jesus if he is chasing after his own desires.
Luke 9:62 – 62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
Part of the fall is us chasing after our own selfish and evil desires. Trying to be the God of our own lives. Isn’t that the bill of goods that Satan was feeding to Eve. You can be like God? That didn’t bode well for her, Adam, or all of us decedents.
We need to die to our own selfish lives and serve the One who created and already died for us.