The Decrease of the Kingdom

"He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:30 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” John 12:24 Decrease, loss, failure, death; these are the things we are called to. And we are called to life and light and immortality. Like a scale, tilted down on one side, the other rises. Our decrease is His increase; our death is life to the Church. May we glory in the death of self and the Life which springs up in our place. May we embrace the instrument of our death as did the martyrs for the joy that is set before us. 1 26 09