I’LL HAVE A BLOODY MARY, A STEAK SANDWICH AAAND A STEAK SANDWICH

Easier than writing lots of individual emails

GOT CONVICTION?

Kristin shared this with me.  She was told that it is displayed on the desk of a prominent pastor to remind him of humilty and dying to self.  Please join me in the spanking.

To regularly remind myself of the essence of self-sacrificing love, I have on my desk the following words from an unknown source:
“One of the greatest proofs you’re drawing on God’s grace is that you can be humiliated without manifesting the slightest trace of anything but His grace.”-Oswald Chambers
      When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at naught and you 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, or any annoyance, when you can stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility, and endure 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 attitude, 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 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 well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart-that is dying to self.
      

2 Comments»

  Kami wrote @

Wow. Thanks for sharing this. What a great reminder of how Christ lived and what He calls us to strive for.

  jessi wrote @

Hey Sam! Would you inform your readership of the pumpking carving contest that’s happening over on Ken and Beth’s blog? We’d like a bunch of people to cast a bunch of votes. And since you are basically (mmmbase-i-kali) my “blog hub” I figured you’d be a good person to tell!

Check it out over at http://www.kenandbeth.blogspot.com/.

Sorry to taint this awesome post with the mundane.

Jessi


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