Dying To Self

DYING TO SELF!

When you are content with any food, any offering, any climate, any society, and
any raiment, and any interruption by the will of God,
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 of 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 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 any
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 never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own
good works or itch after commendations, 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, 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??