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??