Your Free Will To Use Your Life For Christ

10. Your Free Will To Use Your Life For Christ

"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." -Matthew 16:25

Notice the "whosoever."  It is your choice.  These verses in context are speaking about our service to Christ, as we have a choice.  If you save your life for yourself, then you will lose--or forfeit--what rewards you could have had in Christ by using your life for Him.  And then He goes on to say:

"And 'whosoever' shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it." When your life is hid in Christ, you will find out what living is really all about. This is when you put the Lord Jesus Christ first in your life. The point we are making is--"whosoever" is your choice. If you save your life for yourself, you are going to reap the results. If you allow your life to be used for Christ, then you will also reap the rewards in Heaven as well as a satisfying life down here.

If man has no free will, then why did Christ give two alternatives?  We thank God for giving us a free will.  The Lord wants us to serve Him out of love, "because He first loved us," not because we are robots with no will of our own.