Every now and then, a line of Scripture cuts through the noise of modern life like a freight train rolling through a quiet town at midnight. Matthew 16:25–26 is one of those lines. Jesus doesn’t ease into the subject. He doesn’t warm up the crowd. He just lays it out there:
“Whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it… What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?”