This brings us to a startling human paradox. Let me state it simply like this: true freedom is freedom to be my true self, as God made me and meant me to be. But God made me for loving, and loving is giving, self-giving. Therefore, in order to be myself, I have to deny myself and give myself in love for God and others. In order to be free, I have to serve. I order to live, I have to die to my own self-centeredness. In order to find myself I have to lose myself in loving. I have read somewhere that Michelangelo put it beautifully in these words, "When I am yours, then at last I am completely myself." For I am not myself until I am yours (God's and others).
Again this is the radically subversive, and counter-intuitive nature and beauty of the Gospel.
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