#die to self

[dramoor]

"You are called to die to the darkness of self-centeredness in your life, so that in a conversion you may perceive what has always been within you from the time of your Baptism, the light of Christ ready to transfigure you into His same glorious light...Jesus Christ truly lives in all His transcendent light and power within you. He has already taken the initiative. It is for you to respond to this reality of the indwelling Christ as light within you."

~Fr. George A. Maloney, SJ

[gramarobin]

what exactly happens

when you are

twelve years old

and you get baptised

at your church?

will the baptismal water

turn a darkish hue

from all the sins acrued

in twelve short years of life?

-rw

[myremnantarmy]

"𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘰. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘨𝘰."

[yeslordmyking]

[hallsofmaeve]

"But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?"

[thewordfortheday]

Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” John 12:23-24 What does Jesus mean by that? He is the grain of wheat. Unless He is willing to die, unless He goes to the cross, His whole purpose in coming to earth will have been wasted. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. Because of the cross He was able to do something He could never have done otherwise: He was able to share His life with millions of people. Jesus taught and demonstrated the stunning reality that His death was necessary for our new-birth, for the salvation of our souls.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank You that You were willing to die that I might have life, and life everlasting. Teach me to die to self, that I might bear much fruit. Amen

[onevoiceunited]

A hermit was asked, ‘What is humility?’ He said, ‘It is if you forgive a brother who has wronged you before he is sorry.’

- Sayings of the Desert Fathers

(photo: A. Zobolotsky)

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

If a man is going to walk with God, he has got to agree with God. He has got to give up his own thoughts and ways; for God is above us.

Dwight L. Moody