It's the way faith lives. It's the evidence that faith is alive and real. Faith treasures Christ so deeply that competing treasures die to us and we die to them. But this dying to the world is not an earning or meriting of eternal life through the rigors of asceticism or through the spiritual disciplines of the Christian life. You cannot earn or merit anything from God who already owns you and everything you have.
Salvation is by grace through faith.
And all these other things are the evidences and credentials of true faith. Everything is related to love. So we are not leaving it. Paul gives 15 descriptions of what love is. And what struck me was how virtually all of them involve what Jesus called a dying or a hating of your life in this world.