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 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 you are 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?
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