Deny Thyself

Jesus said, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God," and "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Our Leader, Mary Baker G. Eddy, has told us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," p. 138, "There is but one way to Heaven and harmony, and Christ shows us this way."

These sound at first hard sayings, but are they so? Are they not simple statements of fact, given to us in love, that we may face and recognize them? We cannot take any mortal, material, possession with us into Life—there is no room for it in the narrow way. The "rich man" is not only the wealthy man, but the man who is satisfied with himself, and therefore unwilling to part with his sense of self.

"Deny thyself" was the constant command of the Master.

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