Thank God—it is almost Sunday, the Lord's Day, the day of resurrection. Here are the good words of Richard Sibbes. This snippet comes from a treatise of his, entitled, "Denial of the Best for the Church's Benefit.” . . .
"A second thing that I observe is this, that holy and gracious men, who are led by the Spirit of God, can deny themselves and their own best good for the church's benefit. They know that God has appointed them to be instruments to convey good to others . . .“A good man, as soon as he is a good man, has the spirit of love in him, and 'love seeks not its own,' (1 Cor. 13:6), but the good of another; and as the love of Christ and the love of God possesses and seizes upon the soul, so self-love decays. What is gracious love but a decay of self love? The more self-love decays, the more we deny ourselves."
