What does it mean to go to the Cross to die to the self life?
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.
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 yourself, but take it all in patient loving silence,
that is dying to self.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record
your own good works, or itch after commendation, when you can truly love to be
unknown, that is dying to self.
When you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you
don’t sting and hurt with the insult or the oversight, but your heart is happy,
being counted worthy to suffer for Christ, that is dying to self.
Are you dead yet?
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