SELF-DENIAL (2)

^[p. 256] SELF-DENIAL (2)

When one has to consider for others, as indeed we all have, the more we deny ourselves the better; and when it is really done to the Lord, we are sure to be much more gainers than if, only thinking of ourselves, we had grasped at what apparently would help us.

To surrender a really good thing, in order that others may gain, is really grace. The Lord surrendered everything good in itself in order to bless us.

There is not enough of self-denial. Self-denial is where self is most felt, not where it is least felt; and all the light of Scripture cannot promote growth without self-denial.

This is where we all fail, and in this day there is a great deal more zeal to acquire knowledge and intelligence in the wonders of revelation, than to deny the man that has no sympathy with it, no part in it but condemnation.