The Other Side of Self-Pity

“Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Luke 9:23

If you’re anything like I’ve been through the years, self-pity can be a mountain so monstrously big that I can’t see over it, can’t see through it, can’t see around it, and can’t see the other side of it. Quite plainly, self-pity is so self-consuming that when I’ve allowed myself to get wrapped up in it, I can’t see past me. I lose my sight of the Lord,...