"The birth-mark of nature must be contradicted throughout by the death-mark of the Cross. Let us, then, ask the Lord to mark His Cross upon all our natural choices.
Lord Crucified, O mark Thy holy Cross
On motive, preference, all fond desires,
On that which self in any form inspires
Set Thou that sign of loss.
And when the touch of death is here and there
Laid on a thing most precious in our eyes,
Let us not wonder, let us recognize
The answer to this prayer.
-Amy Carmichael
But thanks be to God, this yet-not-I kind of a Christian life is no lifelong funeral procession. Nay, verily, for Jesus said, 'He that loseth His life for my sake shall find it.' What could be more wonderful than that the Son of God, glorious and eternal, Creator of all things, 'who loved me and gave Himself for me,' should stoop down to make me His own, His very temple, allowing me to say, in a language of a living faith and reality, 'Christ liveth in me.'"
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