Have you died to self?

[lovex]

DYING TO SELF
When you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you don't sting and hurt with the insult or 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 opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take in all in patient, loving silence.


THAT IS DYING TO SELF
When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any impunctuality, 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 are content with any food, any offering, any climate, any society, any raiment, any interruption by the will of God.


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

[crossnote]

That is dead to self
When you see yourself dead to the law, sin, the world, satan and death itself, through the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus.

[Caleb]

Php 3:7 But such things as were gain to me, these I have considered loss for the sake of Christ.
Php 3:8 More than that I also consider all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have sustained the loss of all things, and I consider them to be rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
Php 3:9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, the righteousness of the law, but the righteousness by faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
Php 3:10 so as to know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
Php 3:11 if in some way I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Rom 8:29 Because whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.

1Jn 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.
1Jn 3:3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

When all that matters to us, is to be like Him (conformed to His image)
When we don't want people to come to us, but to Christ in us
When we don't want people to give us recognition, but Christ in us

Then we have died to self.

[Indueseason]

I believe the Lord has sent me to this thread! It has blessed me enormously, thank you lovex for sharing this! May I die to everything that elevates me, and promote everything that elevates Him!!

blessings to you

[Protective Angel]

Very powerful words

Doesn't it say somewhere in the Bible about dying every day?

That's sounds like good advice.

[episkopos]

DYING TO SELF
When you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you don't sting and hurt with the insult or 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 opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take in all in patient, loving silence.


THAT IS DYING TO SELF
When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any impunctuality, 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 are content with any food, any offering, any climate, any society, any raiment, any interruption by the will of God.


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

Amen! The world does not revolve around us!

[Dani H]

Amen! The world does not revolve around us!

Only in our own heads!

[Gilligan]

The phrase "dead to self" almost sounds like being an android.

[Protective Angel]

The phrase "dead to self" almost sounds like being an android.

For those who are the "I" people, they require more "reprogramming" of their circuits than those who already have been doing things for others first.

[lovex]

I am very thankful to you who brought this thread back up. This is one of my favorite ways of looking at "dying to self" with the advice given here. I'm glad that this could help some of you.

[Gilligan]

For those who are the "I" people, they require more "reprogramming" of their circuits than those who already have been doing things for others first.

Does Captain Picard need to have Data reprogrammed?

[Protective Angel]

Does Captain Picard need to have Data reporogrammed?

Live long and prosper my friend.

Make it so.

[parsonsmom]

Thank you ; that is one of the best examples I have ever read.
It take alot of love in your heart to stay in this; Parsonsmom