"We must believe in Jesus and receive Him and turn from our sin and obey Him and humble ourselves like little children and love Him more than we love our family, our possessions, or our own life. This is what it means to be converted to Christ. This alone is the way of everlasting life."
- John Piper, Desiring God, ch. 2, pp. 69 - 70
...and so difficult, when self-love is the really the greatest sin anyone deals with.
ReplyDelete"The Christian Hedonist knows that the secret of joy is self-forgetfulness." - The Pipermeister
ReplyDeleteMy struggle with pride now, bro, is in the form of submission to a boss that is overbearing and quite hard to respect.