Though I agree with the spirit of the quote, the difficulty I have is that there is no indication of how living for someone else is accomplished; Life is worth living because life has intrinsic value in itself. Though a brilliant man, the quote itself doesn't satisfy. Going to God with my spirit of disquiet and meditating on it through the day, his word spoke this in response:
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.(1) And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.(2) Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.(3)"
What I get from the theme that unfolds through these scriptures is that dying to ourselves and our needs is the only way to successfully live for someone else; outside of that it will be impossible to execute effectively. This is the antithesis of the modern ethos and anathema to the commercial realities of the modern economy; which is why a product of modernity (myself) finds the Einstein quote difficult to grasp. God's logic is foolishness and backwards.(4) God's logic says that we gain life and value by first losing it:
"Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it."(5)
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.(1) And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.(2) Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.(3)"
What I get from the theme that unfolds through these scriptures is that dying to ourselves and our needs is the only way to successfully live for someone else; outside of that it will be impossible to execute effectively. This is the antithesis of the modern ethos and anathema to the commercial realities of the modern economy; which is why a product of modernity (myself) finds the Einstein quote difficult to grasp. God's logic is foolishness and backwards.(4) God's logic says that we gain life and value by first losing it:
"Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it."(5)
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