“‘When the will of God crosses the will of man,’ Addison Leitch said, ‘somebody has to die.’ Life requires countless ‘little’ deaths – occasions when we are given the chance to say No to self and Yes to God. The Apostle Paul said, ‘For continually, while still alive, we are being surrendered into the hands of death, for Jesus’ sake.’
….There is a big However in this. It is this: We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.”