If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.
–Donald Miller
Self dies hard.
However, it is the requirement of all followers of Jesus:
“If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.”
–Jesus (Luke 9:23-24)
Have you died to self today so that you can live for Him – with His goals, for His plans, speaking His words, for His kingdom to increase?