How do you deny yourself?
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23). In the resurrection there will be no self- denial because none of our desires will be sinful or foolish. Till then we have sinful and foolish desires daily. Hence, “Let him deny himself and take up his cross daily.” What Paul Says This is so essential in Christian living that Paul made it part of his one-time sermon to Felix (“he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment,” Acts 24:25); he made it part of the fruit of the Spirit (“faithfulness, gentleness, self-control,” Galatians 5:23); he made it part of the qualifications for overseers (“self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined,” Titus 1:8). And he gave us a taste of the sort of thing he meant: “But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry” ( 1 Corinthians 7:9). So he means there are times for denying some