The other day someone asked me what makes me feel most “alive.”  It’s fun to think about the things that give us the greatest pleasure and fulfillment.  But as a set-apart young woman, a better question to ask (and a more Biblical one) would be “what makes me feel most dead to myself and alive in Christ?”  The Christian life isn’t about what WE want and what makes US feel good – but about laying down our own agenda and rights in exchange for His life.  It’s not an easy life (it leads to the Cross) but it is the most fulfilling existence there is.

I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ