dying to live

i recently heard message that for the last couple of days has really been replaying in my mind. it was on Luke 9:23-25 "Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?" Along with hearing this sermon Wednesday night i taught from Ephesians 4 and 5 which speaks very much so about removing the old nature and living as, since in reality we are, a new man. i have been really contemplating how much i need to change in my daily life if i truly am to be that disciple of Christ living out my new life in him. In the message the pastor made this quote, "you can either live temporarily to die eternally or you can die temporarily to live eternally." there is a lot in those words. this should be not only a one time decision but an ongoing process of dying temporarily to our selfish, sinful desires because of the eternal life that our Lord has given us.