"syndoulos"

If we are to please our Lord in everything we must put Him first in everything. There must be an honest acceptance of whatever this means. It means a life with no private reserves, no self-choices - not one.

If we are to win souls we must be prepared for what it costs to win them. It cost our Lord Jesus Calvary. It will cost us as much as we are able to bear of what the cross means in daily life. The cross means a daily dying to self and all the claims of self.

Read what our Lord said in Luke 9.23: If any many will come after Me, let him deny himself (refuse the voice that urges yielding to anything less than His supreme call to offer all), and take up his cross daily (not in one great act of renunciation but in a thousand unseen and perhaps very small daily acts), and follow Me.

- Amy Carmichael