when we place the concept of proving our love “by slowly ceasing to exist” beside Christ’s standard of “Thy will be done” (Matthew 6:10 KJV)—before our own interests, our own preferences, or our own passions—we see that while the former could indeed be the response to cultural conditioning, the latter is a wildly countercultural call to action that clashes with our current climate of self-obsession and self-deification.
