DON'T BE SELFISH

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Philippians 2:3-5

Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves.

Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.

You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.


It is difficult to live the way God wants us to live if we carry the mentality of always being the beneficiary.  We are relevant not because of ourselves but because of our benefit to others. Selah


Do we


* always want to win the argument?


* always want to be the one to receive but never giving?


* always want the other person/people to sacrifice, while we put in nothing?


* only think of ourself and never the other person?


* pray for ourself alone, interceding for no one else?


* always see the other as wrong and we always right?


The list could go on and on.


When we want all things to favour us at all times, then, where is sacrifice?


Where is the prove of our love for others, where is God's nature in us?


Ephesians 5:2

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.


1John 4:11

 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

(talking of relationship among believers - the brethren)


So we could experience some discomfort that a brethren could have a little comfort.


We are of God and we have the Spirit. Let us not get carried away. We are of love.


Ephesians 5: 21 continued in the later verses to talk of love expressed by the husband and wife in comparison with Christ and His church. 

*Hmmm if love doesn't find it's place in our homes where else do we want to show it.*

The husband must not shy away from it, he is commanded to love. The woman is commanded to respect.

That which could be the issue is emphasized. That he/she who is wise could take heed!


May we make the right sacrifices.


No matter whether we think it favours us now or not, let us remember:


Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.


He calls us blessed.


Love

@ the watcher.

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