Matt 10
If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worth of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine. If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine. If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give it up for my sake, you will find it.

Luke 9
Then he said to the crowd, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross daily, and follow me. If you try to keep your life for yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for me, you will find true life. And how do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose or forfeit your own soul in the process? If a person is ashamed of me and my message, I, the Son of Man, will be ashamed of that person when I return in my glory and in the glory of my Father

• When you are content with any food, any offering, any climate, any society, any raiment, and any interruption by the will of God, that is 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 at being counted worthy to suffer for Christ; that is dying to self.
• When your good is evil spoken of and when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinion ridiculed and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient, loving stride; that is dying to self.
• When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularities or any annoyance. When you stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagant spiritual insensibility and endure it as Jesus endured, that is dying to self.
• When you never care to be referred to in conversation or to record your own good works or itch after commendations. When you truly love to be unknown; that is dying to self.
• When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and you can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy nor question God while your 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?

 

Quoted from Paul Cain, compiled by Steve Williams