What have I done? How could I be so foolish? Through Your brightness, I see my darkness. In Your presence, I now realize my sins. Shame. Humility. I know now what I must do. Logically, it seems the only option that I am left with. I close my eyes. I take a deep breath. I feel the cold barrel against my temple. I gently squeeze the trigger. I lay motionless on the floor. I? There is no more I. I…I am dead.…because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man – and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. (Romans 1:21-23 NKJV)
…“Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.” (Mark 8:34-35 NKJV)Goodbye Self, old friend. You will not be missed.
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20 NKJV)
…if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:21-24 NKJV)
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