dying to self.

it's not literally suicide, but rather choosing not to feed the flesh of its lustful desires.. greed, sex (or anything related), pride...

i've always heard our pastor preach this:

there are three things to which all believers must watch out for in order to survive this earth, and they are:

--lust of the flesh

--lust of the eyes

--pride of life

it reminded me of this passage:

LUKE 9:22-26 (Take Up the Cross and Follow Him)

23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily,[a] and follow Me.
24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?
26 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.

i'm not really planning to preach right now or share the "daily gospel" or whatever you wanna call this thing i'm doing right now... it just so happens that after 2 days of conflict and giving of cold shoulders to each other, my mom hugged me today and said she was sorry. i'm really glad we're ok now, but i was burdened by the fact that my mother had to be the first one to humble herself down...

i couldn't even swallow my pride. :'(



it's not easy to die daily from myself. i'm admitting that.
HOWEVER, it's a complete mistake to NOT try.

good morning. :)