Is the Bible against common sense?

My Sunday Scripture 2010.6.20


Then, speaking to all, he said, 'If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me.

Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, will save it.

(Luke 9:18-24)

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My Reading Notes:
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This is a line few would dare to think deeply into it. It seems, it is against the common sense of us all. Who would like to have a bitter life like Jesus? Who would like to be nailed into the cross? Who would like to pick up the cross?

Who would not like to choose an easy life? to enjoy good food, good clothes, and every kind of material satisfaction?

What is the meaning of losing ones life? who would choose to lose it, but not to save it?

May be this is the most most important secret about life itself.

Those who choose to enjoy the material, will lose it. Those who choose to work out all his effort with blood and tear, will save it. Life is something for us to fight for, not to waste for.

The question is WHY. Where does the important motive come from? Why would I do thing this way? but not that way?

This is the biggest secret of life. Every one can choose, and every one can see into the secret in a split second, and understood, or leave it there, and go into the mess of the fussy world, like a fly fly into the dunghill.