Tony Stark’s final act of sacrifice to stop Thanos, while difficult to watch, was the only possible conclusion to his story arc… after all, the “arc reactor” in the chest of the world’s most famous “genius billionaire playboy philanthropist” only existed in the first place because someone else laid down their life so Iron Man could live. Tony’s shallow existence would’ve ended years earlier in a desert cave if it wasn’t for the self-sacrificial actions of a kind doctor who gave away his final breath… and that choice placed Iron Man on his path to one day do the exact same thing.

Our decision to follow Christ is more than just receiving a clean slate of forgiveness from our sins… we are commanded to demonstrate His quality of love to others by dying daily to our personal wants and desires. While “taking up our cross” will look different for each of us, it will always mean that we surrender what we would prefer to keep so others can receive what they can never lose. But we aren’t asked to give away anything that we weren’t freely given first… we are only standing today because of His amazing grace and the sacrifices of those who chose to share Him with us. Let’s pick up that gauntlet today and act as a selfless conduit of His grace, even if the cost to our own desires is high. It is only in giving our life away that we truly find it.

Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.” Luke 9:23-24

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. John 15:12-13

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