Devotional Worship Songs: Dying To Self

Dying To Self!!!

When you are forgotten or neglected and you don’t hurt with the insult, but your heart is happy—that is dying to self.

When your advice is disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, and take it all in patient, loving silence—that is dying to self.

When you lovingly and patiently bear disorder, irregularity, tardiness,

and annoyance… 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 for praise after an accomplishment, when

you can truly love to be unknown… that is

dying to self.

When you can see your

brother or sister prosper

and can honestly rejoice with him, and feel no envy even though your needs

are greater— that is

dying to self.

When you are content with

any food, any offering,

any raiment, any climate,

or any society— that is

dying to self.

When you can take correction, when you can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, with no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart— that is

dying to self