Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. (Matthew 7:12)
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. (Mark 8:35)
And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God. (Luke 23:35)
There is an idea in the Bible that like Jesus I should serve and save others even at the cost of my own life. Jesus knows that by trying to save others I will be saved in the process.
I don't need to stop wanting to be saved, but I need to turn my attention from what I need to do to be saved to how I can save others even at my own cost.
When Jesus was on the cross he could have expected someone to save him, after all, he had done so much for so many. I suppose in our lives we will face the same betrayal where nobody stands up for us though we stood for them. But Jesus could have saved himself, but didn't because by suffering he saved us. What a man.
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