Hating Our Own Life
This is the second relationship we’re going to look at from Luke 14.
At the end of verse 26, Jesus tells the crowd (and us) that we’re supposed to biblically hate our own life. This is wonderfully interesting. This word “life” in the Greek is the word psuche.
Psuche-life represents the self-identified thoughts and beliefs I have mentally and emotionally adopted, of what I believe I need for me to be me.
Psuche-life says, “I am me because, [fill in the blank].”
What Jesus is saying here is that I can’t be His disciple unless I “hate” what I had previously chose to believe I needed to make me, me.
Jesus telling us we’ll need to hate our life can be applied to our marriage.
Many of the problems and frustrations we’re experiencing may stem from the psuche-life images we adopted before we got married.
God uses difficulties and disappointments in our marriage to get us to “hate,” or let go of our previously adopted marital-psuche-life images.
This includes the hopes, dreams, and fantasies of what we believed we needed in marriage to satisfy and fulfill us.
What we chose to believe we needed to make us, us, will now need to be hated, or loved less than what Jesus says will make us, us in our marriage; Him (and His will for us in our marriage), not what she would or could do for us.
An example of this can be found in what we previously looked at in Ephesians 5:25-26.
Our pre-marital psuche-life-images most likely didn’t include our God-assigned position of being the head of our wife and all the marital challenges that go with it.
But this God-directed ministry will now need to be included in our marital-psuche-life images and desires.
Following through with God’s good plan to crush and grieve us for the sake of our wife’s spiritual growth, will be what most satisfies and fulfills us; what makes us, us.
As we obey Him, and humbly (in His power) let go of previously held, marital psuche-life beliefs, we’ll be applying Jesus’ directive to hate our own life and continue to qualify as one of His disciples.
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