When you are forgotten, or neglected, or
purposely set at naught and you don't sting and hurt with the insult
but your
heart is happy being counted worthy to suffer for Christ...
that is dying to
self.
When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are
crossed, your advice disregarded,
your opinion ridiculed and you refuse to let
anger rise in your heart, or even defend your self,
but take it all in patient,
loving silence...
that is dying to self.
When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, and
irregularity, or annoyance;
when you stand face-to-face with waste, folly,
extravagance, spiritual insensibility
and endure it as Jesus endured...
that is
dying to self.
When you are content with any food, any offering, any
climate, any society, any raiment, any interruption by the will of God...
that
is dying to self.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation
or to record your own good words or itch after
condemnations,
when you can truly love to be unknown...
that is dying to self.
When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs
met and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit
and feel no envy or question God
while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances...
that is
dying to self.
When you can receive correction and reproof from one of
less stature than yourself
and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly,
finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart...
that is dying
to self.
Are you dead yet?
In these last days, the Holy
Spirit would bring us to the cross
"that I may know him ... being made
conformable unto His death"
(Philippians 3:10).
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