Jesus demonstrated with His own life what He spoke about often that true life comes out of death. In Luke 9, Jesus tells us to deny ourselves and that if we lose our own life we will find life. When you learn to die to yourself in the moment it may look and feel like death but it opens up to a beautiful life that expresses itself in self-giving ways. When Jesus died it sure just looked like death to everyone, but three days later a glorious life was manifested! He invites us all into this way of being, this same pattern of life and on the surface to our self-centered culture it looks crazy, but on the backside of the self-denial and making Jesus Lord what we find is a kind of life to the fullest. It is a whole new way to live, be and think and it ends in looking more like Jesus!