When you are forgotten or neglected or
purposely set at naught and you don't sting with the insult or
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 or 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, and unpunctuality or any annoyance, when
you stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual
insensibility and endure it as Jesus endured it ~ that is dying to
self.
When you never care to refer to yourself in
conversation or record your own good works or itch after
condemnation, when you truly love to be unknown ~ that is dying to
self.
When you are content with any clothing, with
any climate, any society, any solitude, any interruption by the will
of God ~ that is dying to self.
When you can see your brother prosper and have
his needs met and you honestly repose with him in spirit and
feel no envy, or 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.
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