{"id":4695,"date":"2021-02-01T10:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T10:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/?p=4695"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:16:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:16:47","slug":"wir-leben-nicht-dem-sterben-entgegen-sondern-sterben-dem-leben-entgegen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/2021\/02\/01\/wir-leben-nicht-dem-sterben-entgegen-sondern-sterben-dem-leben-entgegen\/","title":{"rendered":"We do not live towards dying, but die towards life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, we are already in the middle of the new theme for the year. I am fascinated by the idea of metamorphosis, the transformation of our being into Jesus-likeness. I myself was somewhat surprised by the discovery that this does not just happen smoothly, but has a high price, namely our life. For the new life is not simply grafted on, but replaces the ego nature. In other words, the old ego has to die so that the divine ego can unfold. This led me to the play on words: We do not live towards dying, but die towards life. This sentence does not mean death at the very end of life, but describes the reality of a follower of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have found myself not feeling well after sermons with such statements. The question of why has been on my mind for a long time. Is it the finger pointing of the Holy Spirit because I have lost my way? Through Bible study and prayer, I have come across the following negative-feeling causers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I much prefer to preach on topics that people can absorb more easily. Clever tips, good life advice packaged in a bite-sized way; that goes down better and raises the rate of positive feedback.<\/li><li>We live in a rather superficial, suffering-averse fun society that is all about self-realisation. The preaching of the cross seems unwieldy and inappropriate.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus, on the other hand, said: \"<em>Whoever refuses to take up his cross and follow me is not worthy to belong to me<\/em>\"(Matthew 10:38). We do not have to take up Jesus' cross. He did that. There He redeemed us to life by dying. We are to <em>our<\/em> Taking up the cross. This means that we give our ego nature to death in order to receive real life. Paul calls this lifelong process metamorphosis. This may not sound popular, but it is extremely promising!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, we are already in the middle of the new theme for the year. I am fascinated by the idea of metamorphosis, the transformation of our being into Jesus-likeness. I myself was somewhat surprised by the discovery that this does not just happen smoothly, but comes at a high price, namely our lives. The new life is not simply grafted on,...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-herzschlag"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}