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My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

JULY The Seventeenth THE DYING OF SELF

JOHN xii.12-36.

|Except a corn of wheat ... die!| Yes, it is through death we pass to life. Discipleship in which there is no death can never be truly alive. The nipping winter is essential to the green and flowery spring. No tomb, no resurrection glory! In every life there must be a grave, and self must be buried within it.

We must die to self in our prayers. In many prayers self is obtrusive and aggressive from end to end. It is self, self, self! That self must be crucified. We must make more room for others in our supplications. On our knees the egotist must die, and the altruist be born. And |if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit|! There are multitudes of professing Christians who would experience a wonderful resurrection if they were more |given to hospitality| in their communion with the Lord.

And if self die in our prayers, nowhere else will it be seen. That which is truly slain when we are upon our knees will not reassert itself when we return to common ways of work and service. And, therefore, let the corn of wheat fall into the ground and die!

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