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spencer2
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What exactly does death to self mean? Share examples too.
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St_Francis
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Putting God’s will above our own… serving Christ-in-others…
A man working a job he hates to support his family, a woman getting up in the middle of the night to comfort a child, a nun picking a dying man up from the streets to get care for him, a monk leaving everything he knows to take the Gospel around to the other side of the world, a priest who gives up so much to bring the Body and Blood of Christ to us…
A man working a job he hates to support his family, a woman getting up in the middle of the night to comfort a child, a nun picking a dying man up from the streets to get care for him, a monk leaving everything he knows to take the Gospel around to the other side of the world, a priest who gives up so much to bring the Body and Blood of Christ to us…
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Deus_tecum
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I have to take exception to the first example. If a man has died to self then who is it that hates his job? Only the vanquished ego would hold such a resentment.Putting God’s will above our own… serving Christ-in-others…
A man working a job he hates to support his family, a woman getting up in the middle of the night to comfort a child, a nun picking a dying man up from the streets to get care for him, a monk leaving everything he knows to take the Gospel around to the other side of the world, a priest who gives up so much to bring the Body and Blood of Christ to us…
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JimR-OCDS
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Death to self is death to the false self, which is created by the ego and serves only itself.
When we die to the self and give our life over to Jesus, he gives us a new life in Him and we come to know the true self God had in mind when he created you.
Self-knowledge is part of the spiritual journey and until we die to the ego created false identity, we will not know God who brings us back to our true being.
No longer I, but Christ who lives within me.
Jim
When we die to the self and give our life over to Jesus, he gives us a new life in Him and we come to know the true self God had in mind when he created you.
Self-knowledge is part of the spiritual journey and until we die to the ego created false identity, we will not know God who brings us back to our true being.
No longer I, but Christ who lives within me.
Jim
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Deus_tecum
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Well said. :clapping:Death to self is death to the false self, which is created by the ego and serves only itself.
When we die to the self and give our life over to Jesus, he gives us a new life in Him and we come to know the true self God had in mind when he created you.
Self-knowledge is part of the spiritual journey and until we die to the ego created false identity, we will not know God who brings us back to our true being.
No longer I, but Christ who lives within me.
Jim
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