Mark 9:43
“If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire.”

Jesus used hyperbole…an exaggeration…to make his point. Whatever it is in your life that is influencing you to choose to make a selfish, non-life-giving action…that influence needs to be removed. If not…you are basically throwing away your “true self” into a garbage dump (which is what Gehenna was at the time…a place where garbage was constantly being burned). By choosing to satisfy your ego…or “small self”…you will never discover the “true self” that God is calling you to be. The “you” that God made you to become can only become a reality if you surrender the insatiable demands of your ego for self-gratification…and use your talents to make the world a more loving, compassionate and just place.

Suggested song of the day—“God Is the Goal” on the Live to Love album.
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Have a blessed day!