At first sight, the New Testament’s descriptions of the Christian life often seem to defy logic.  On further reflection, however, we see the Lord’s wise design in all of them.  Note the following examples:-

we see unseen things (2 Cor. 4:18);
we conquer by yielding (Rom. 6:16-18);
we find rest under a yoke (Mt. 11:28-30);
we reign by serving (Mark 10:42-44);
we are made great by becoming little (Luke 9:48);
we are exalted by being humble (Mt. 23:12);
we become wise by being fools for Christ’s sake (1 Cor. 1:20, 21);
we are made free by becoming his slaves (Rom. 6:10);
we grow strong by becoming weak (2 Cor. 12:10);
we triumph by defeat (2 Cor. 12:7-9);
we find victory by glorying in our infirmities (2 Cor. 12:5);
and we live by dying (John 12:24,25; 2 Cor. 4:10,11).

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A.W. Tozer wrote:-

‘A real Christian is an odd number, anyway.  He feels supreme love for One who he has never seen; talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see; expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another; empties himself in order to be full; admits he is wrong so he can be declared right; goes down in order to get up; is strongest when he is weakest; richest when he is poorest and happiest when he feels the worst.  He dies so he can live; forsakes in order to have; gives away so he can keep; sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passeth knowledge.’