Do you know the difference between denying self and self-denial? You can live the Christian life in such a way of depriving yourself of certain things yet all the while so that your own self can be just as exalted as ever. "Cross-bearers," affirms David Guzik, " will be glory-receivers." This taking up of our cross does not necessary mean a martyr's death, but it is a calling to a martyr's life.
