When
you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught and you
don’t sting and hurt with the insult, but your heart is happy
being
counted worthy to suffer for Messiah . . . that is DYING TO SELF.
When
your good is evil spoken of, and when your wishes are crossed, or your
advice disregarded, or your opinion ridiculed, and you refuse
to
let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but you take it
all in patient, loving silence . . . that is DYING TO SELF.
When
you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, or irregularity, or
annoyance; when you stand face-to-face with waste, folly, extravagance,
spiritual insensibility, and you endure it as Yahushua 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 Yahuweh . . . that is DYING TO SELF.
When
you never
care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good
words, or to itch after commendations, and 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 you can honestly rejoice
with him in spirit and feel no envy, or question Yahuweh 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.
In these
last days, the Spirit would bring us to the cross, that death would
bring forth resurrection:
That
I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the
fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable
unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto
the resurrection of the dead.
(Philippians 3:10-11) ARE YOU DEAD
YET?
- Author Unknown
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