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“I’ve said part of the trouble with these people is that they are morbidly occupied with themselves. They haven’t learned that as Christians they should finish with self, deny self, take up their cross and follow Him. Leave yourself in His hands, utterly and absolutely, past, present and future. Ah yes, but why are they morbidly preoccupied with themselves? The answer is of course that they’re not sufficiently occupied with Him. And that is the explanation of this condition: it is a failure to know Him and His ways as we should know them. My dear friends if we only spent more of our time looking at Him, we’d soon forget ourselves… You’ve come into the Christian life, very well then, stop looking at yourself and begin to enjoy Him! “ ~Martyn Lloyd Jones from Spiritual Depression-pt ‘Vain Regrets’.
See also: Are you a Christian? – Tim Conway (Bible Study on Assurance of Salvation) Excellent