Khi được sai vào trần gian, các môn đệ cần phải được thánh hóa. Và vì sự thánh thiện chỉ có được ở nơi Chúa, người môn đệ cần phải trở nên trống rỗng để dành không gian cho sự thánh thiện của Chúa có thể tràn vào.
Sự trống rỗng cần có đây chính là sự quên mình, từ bỏ và khiêm tốn cho đi.
Emptiness and Fullness
Emptiness and fullness at first seem complete opposites. But in the spiritual life they are not. In the spiritual life we find the fulfillment of our deepest desires by becoming empty for God.
We must empty the cups of our lives completely to be able to receive the fullness of life from God. Jesus lived this on the cross. The moment of complete emptiness and complete fullness become the same. When he had given all away to his Abba, his dear Father, he cried out, "It is fulfilled" (John 19:30). He who was lifted up on the cross was also lifted into the resurrection. He who had emptied and humbled himself was raised up and "given the name above all other names" (see Philippians 2:7-9). Let us keep listening to Jesus' question: "Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?" (Matthew 20:22). (Nouwen M)
Life as a gift
The greatest love: to one's own life. Love always takes this route: to give one's life. To live life as a gift, a gift to be given — not a treasure to be stored away. And Jesus lived it in this manner, as a gift. And if one lives life as a gift, one does what Jesus wanted: 'I appointed you that you should go and bear fruit'”. So, we must not burn life down with egoism.
(http://www.news.va/en/news/the-isolated-conscience)
