The Cross and the Self
by Bill Freeman, 321 pages, paperback
Book Description
God's great work in our lives is to transfer us experientially out of ourselves and into Himself. The Cross and the Self describes the depths of the self-life while at the same time showing us God's way of dealing with it - the cross. God does not leave us to ourselves. He deals with us so that He might become our source. This book helps us understand the experiences of the cross in our daily life.
Many of the Lord's servants have written concerning the cross and the self:
"While the Spirit of God in the depth of your heart is antagonizing the self-life, He does it by making Jesus Christ a living bright reality. He fixes your thoughts upon Jesus...you hardly think about self...and all the time that you are thinking about Him, the process of death to self is going on within your heart." —F.B. Meyer
"Christ becomes to us the man who lived the life of God for us in human nature, and who brings salvation from self by Himself being born into us, and giving us the life of God in which self is swallowed up as darkness is swallowed up by light." —Andrew Murray
"Our cross...is the sign that we have denied our right to ourselves and are determined to manifest that we are no longer our own, we have given away forever our right to ourselves to Jesus Christ." —Oswald Chambers