In Luke, there is a passage where Jesus says to be his disciple, we must hate even our own lives.
Even though my life is as good as it can possibly be, all I know right now is that I hate that I can't be in heaven with Jesus right now.
When I think about the world and how messed up it is, or even about my own life and how I just feel a sense of loss being on earth, I just want to translate straight into heaven and meet the Lord.
If you can relate, Id love to know. Do you think this is what it means to hate our life on earth?
Wynona: The hating of this life is an outgrowth of you being reborn and growing as a believer in Christ. It's a new natural instinct as we grow and mature as Christ in this world, filled with its spirit of the dead and unbelievers. We now are in the service of God because we are members of Christ's seed. We cannot serve the two masters of sin and of our holy God, it's impossible. On has to go.
I've literally in a spiritual sense lost family members and friends because of my new spirit of vitality (Greek 'zoe') life within me. It now detests or hates my old spirit of sin and other spirits of the dead as we take up our own cross daily as Christ did in his service to the Father.
(Mat 10:34) “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
(Mat 10:35) For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
(Mat 10:36) And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.
(Mat 10:37) Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
(Mat 10:38) And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
(Mat 10:39) Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
(Luk 14:25) Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,
(Luk 14:26) “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
(Luk 14:27) Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
(Luk 14:28) For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
(Luk 14:29) Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
(Luk 14:30) saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
(Luk 14:31) Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
(Luk 14:32) And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
(Luk 14:33) So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
(Joh 12:23) And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
(Joh 12:24) Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
(Joh 12:25) Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
(Joh 12:26) If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Christ never loved his human life. It was a life for the dead. This is how Yahshua wants us to view our mortal life as new believers in him – that natural human soulish lower instinctive life Greek ‘psuche’ or ‘psyche’ leads to death not new life. As believers our life points to the
new immortal life of vitality, Greek ‘zoe.’
We detest or hate the world because of who we are today.
