Dying to Self

When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at naught, and you do not sting

And hurt at 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 arise 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 impunctuality, or

Spiritual insensibility and endure it as Jesus endured it,

                                                       That is dying to self

When you are content with any food, any 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 to 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 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

                           Author Unknown