Running on empty?

Saturday September 23rd, Mark 8: 34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. After you shake off the temptation to avoid the cross, there is work to do. The kingdom work, the Gospel work, is the work for others. The Path in life is never a straight course, it constantly zigzags from serving others to serving self. In the irony of the kingdom however, you will find that it is the times when you are serving others that your tank begins to fill, it is when you serve yourself that it begins to empty. The goal is not to run out of gas.