June 22

Self-Renunciation

“Men shall be lovers of self.”
— 2 Tim. 3:2 (New Translation).

“Our natural tendency is to get pleasures for self. Innocent they may be but they take the heart from God; they are spoiled by sin. People ask the harm of these things. The question is, What use are you making of them, and where is your heart? The moment there is a turning from the cross (death to everything) our Lord says, "Get thee behind me."”

“Moses did not seek to have his face shine, nor even know when it did, but when he had been with God it did so. … A shining face never sees itself. The heart is occupied with Christ, and in a certain sense and measure self is gone.”