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    Don’t gain the world and lose your soul

    Grocott's MailBy Grocott's MailJune 21, 2012No Comments2 Mins Read
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    I recently had the dubious honour of being burgled and having my laptop stolen. To be honest, I did not really feel angry or shocked. Maybe just knocked off balance and inconvenienced because of the crucial part a laptop or computer plays in one’s life and work.

    I recently had the dubious honour of being burgled and having my laptop stolen. To be honest, I did not really feel angry or shocked. Maybe just knocked off balance and inconvenienced because of the crucial part a laptop or computer plays in one’s life and work.

    Amazingly enough it was recovered after some outstanding police and customs work. I felt relief and joy; true gratitude.

    And it worked quite well, until I did a thorough back-up of my data. In the process the hard disk drive became faulty and it was back to square one.

    People experience this see-saw between exhilarating joy and bitter disappointment every day, and often in extreme and unbearable ways. Which raises the question: 'What is the bottom line of disappointment?'

    Jesus laid down a paradoxical rule for life in Matthew 16:25, 26, “Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me, will save it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?”

    I must confess, it is a hard lesson, but true: as long as I have life and peace of mind, I may gladly lose all the stuff of the whole wide world.

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