Christ’s Example of Self-Denial

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 34.

Christ’s Example of Self-Denial

"For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me." Rom. 15:3. Christ did not need to deny himself for his own advantage. In him dwelt "all the fullness of the Godhead." He was already the mighty Creator and Ruler of worlds which delighted to do him homage. Even Christ, that is, he who needed not to do this, pleased not himself for our sakes. But our self-denial for other’s sakes is to our edification, or building up. The Christian life is founded in self-denial; it should be an example of self-denial all the way through.