Here is another valuable item I retrieved while at Master’s.  Dr. John MacArthur says he keeps it on his desk to regularly remind himself on the essence of self-sacrificing love.   The source is unknown:

“When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at naught and you sting and hurt with the insult of the oversight, but your heart is happy being counted worthy to suffer for Christ – that is dying to self.
When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed and you refuse to let anger raise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient loving silence – that is dying to self.
When you lovingly bear any disorder, any irrgularity or any annoyance, when you can stand face to face with waste, folly extravagance, spiritual insensibiliyt, and enudre as Jesus endured it – that is dying to self.
When you are content with any food, any offering, any raiment, and climate, any society, any attitude, any interruption by the will of God – that is dying to self.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good works, or itch after commendation, when you an truly love to be unkonwn – that is dying to self.
When you see your brother propster and have his needs met and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no ency nor question God, while your own needs are far greater in desperate circumstances – that is dying to self.
When you can receive correction well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment risint up within your heart – that is dying self.”

After writing that I am very convicted.  I do not die to myself as I ought – quiet the opposite in fact!  This quote really marks what it means to be Christ-like and die to self.  I could go on about the impact this has made in my own heart and life, but I will just let the poem speak for itself.