Forget About Yourself

Matthew 10:38-39 The Message " If you don't go all the way with me, through thick and thin, you don't deserve me. If your first concern is to look after yourself, you'll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you'll find both yourself and me."
Luke 9:23-26 " Then he told them what they could expect for themselves: "Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat- I am. Don't run from suffering, embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose your, the real you? If any of you is embarrassed with me and the way I'm leading you, know that the Son of Man will be far more embarrassed with you when he arrives in all his slendor in company with the Father and holy angels."
In both of these verses he plainly says if we hold on to ourselves, our own selfish wants and desires we will lose ourselves. But if we look to him we'll find ourselves, the true self that he designed us to be, and we'll find him. He wants us to sacrifice our lives because he knows that doing that is best for us. He always wants what is best for us, and that means letting go of our lives and letting him lead us.