We are Here to Learn How to Die

It should be obvious: we are here to learn how to die. The countless life-times should have been a hint. God the Father became us by dying of what he is. We become the next by dying of what we are. Christians eventually learn that we can't fight our way to getting what we want, but have to die of our efforts to let God do it in his own way, or not at all if there is better for us. It is in the surrender, the death, that there is victory.