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 it all in patient, loving silence.

~THAT IS DYING TO SELF~

When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any unpunctuality, 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~

Are you dead yet?

In these last days, the Spirit would bring us to the cross.

~Author Unknown~

~oOo~

"That I may know Him,
and the power of his resurrection,
and the fellowship of his sufferings,
being made conformable unto his death."
~Philippians 3:10~

Thank you, Michelle at A Quiet Gracious Life for sharing this classic wisdom. It has blessed me tremendously and by posting it here I hope it will bless other readers, too...

The Most Beautiful Thing in the World

Trully our home should reflects all these three: Peace, Love, and Faith...

HOME

An artist, wanting to paint a beautiful picture, asked a pastor, “What is the most beautiful thing in the world?”

“FAITH,” answered the pastor. “You can feel it in every church, find it at every altar.”

The artist asked the young bride the same question. “LOVE,” she replied. “Love builds poverty into riches;

sweetens tears; makes much of little. Without it there is no beauty.”

A weary soldier said, “PEACE is the most beautiful thing in the world and war the most ugly. Wherever you

find peace, you find beauty.”

Faith, Love, Peace! How can I paint them? Thought the artist. Entering his door he saw Faith in the eyes of his children and Love in the eyes of his wife. And there in the home was the Peace that Love and Faith had built. So he painted the picture of the “Most Beautiful Thing in the World.” And when he had finished, he called it, “HOME.”

~ FIRST BAPTIST BEACON