Dying to Self
Lately I can identify with this concept:
When you are forgotten, neglected or purposely set at
naught, and you don’t sting or hurt with the 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 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 lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any
irregularity, any annoyance, when you can stand face to face with waste, folly,
extravagance, spiritual insensibility, and endure it as Jesus did,
That is dying to self
When you are content with any food, and offering, any
raiment, any climate, any society, any solitude, any interruption by the will
of God,
That is dying to self
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation
or record your own good works or itch after commendation, when you 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, nor question
God, while your own needs are far greater and you find yourself 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,
This is dying to self
(I can't say I'm "there" yet)
Anonymous
No comments:
Post a Comment