Original publish date: Sep 28/2007

Commentary: Right when I was finishing production on this, I decided that it wouldn’t quite be complete without a Bible verse or two at the end, so I went searching through my Bible and found John 15:12,13.

They are verses I have read very frequently, but I read them in a new way this time. Until then, I had always read the phrase “lay down his life for his friends” in the sense that there is no greater love you can have than to be willing to die for them. While that’s true, there’s another way to interpret the phrase.

If your life consists of what you do from day to day and the priorities you’ve made, wouldn’t ignoring what you want to do and thinking of others be a way of laying down your life? In other words, if you set aside what you really want to do today and affect other people’s lives, aren’t you laying down your own life?