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This article was posted on Saturday, July 12, 2008
When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at naught and you don’t sting and hurt with the insult or oversight, 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 opinions 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 lovingly and patiently bear disorder, any irregularity, any unpunctuality, or any annoyance, when you stand face- to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility and endured 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 can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit, and feel no envy, nor 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 Spirit would bring us to the cross.
Philippians 3:10NIV
“I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death.”
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