Deny Himself (FDREL)

      Time for some religion! This week as I was reading in Matthew 16 and found something interesting. It says " Then said Jesus unto his disciples, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me" 
I originally thought it was to bear our burdens and trust in God to get through them. But as I was digging deeper I found this in the footnotes: "And now for a man to take up his cross, is to deny himself all ungodliness, and every worldly lust, and keep my commandments."
Here it tells us to deny ourselves of ungodliness and follow the Savior. I thought that was interesting.  I love how there is so much more meaning to the scriptures than we see just by reading them quickly. We need to make sure that we are always trying to study them and not just skim over them to say we read that day. That does us little good, especially when we are actually trying to deny ourselves of ungodliness and progress toward our Savior and Heavenly Father.
       I also thought it was interesting how in Matt 18:15 says " Moreover if they brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother."  He doesn't tell us to make sure that we embarrass the person in front of people and take care of the problem right then and there, but he tells us to make it private and help them to understand what was done. They don't need you to yell at them for messing up. They might need to hear what you have to say but it needs to be done in the way that Christ would do it. Would He embarrass you? No. He would tell you in secret so that you could know what needs to change and how to change it, Think about it, if someone, especially the Savior embarrassed you, would you want to do anything they say? No! That is why when we correct people and need something to hcange we need to take into consideration how they are feeling and thinking and try to do things as lovingly as possible.