As Christians, we're called to offer ourselves to God as a "living sacrifice." The Apostle Paul encourages us comprehend this reality in his letter to the believers in Rome:
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:1-2)
How would we really introduce ourselves to God as a living sacrifice? However, we should die to our earlier selves.
When you are overlooked, ignored, or deliberately set at nothing, and you don't sting or hurt with the oversight, yet your heart is cheerful being tallied qualified to suffer for Christ;
That is dying to self.
At the point when your good is malevolent discussed, when your desires are crossed, your recommendation neglected, your supposition scorned, and you decline to give anger a chance to ascend in your heart or even protect yourself, yet take everything in persistent, adoring quiet;
That is dying to self.
When you affectionately and persistently bear any turmoil, any anomaly, any disturbance; when you can stand eye to eye with squander, habit, indulgence, spiritual apathy, and endure it as Jesus did;
That is dying to self.
When you are content with any food, and offering, any attire, any atmosphere, any general public, any isolation, any intrusion by the will of God;
That is dying to self.
When you never care to allude to yourself in discussion or record your own good works or itch after recognition, when you can genuinely love to be obscure;
That is dying to self.
When you can see your fellow brethren flourish and have his needs met, and you feel no envy, nor question God, while your own needs are far more prominent and you are in urgent conditions;
That is dying to self.
When you can get correction and condemnation from one of less stature than yourself and can unassumingly submit, deep down and also apparently, finding no resistance or disdain rising up inside your heart;
That is dying to self.
