Serving Others

Good Morning!! What have your goals and thoughts, been about this day? Are you planned the day in such a way as to better your own situation, or as to better the situation of others around you? Is your great concern the fulfillment of personal ambitions,...or is your ambition to lose yourself in the service, and benefiting of God's people, around you?

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.—Philippians 2:3-4 (NIV)

What mindset do you think invariably leads to serving others?...Humility. When we begin to see ourselves as undeserving of the least of God's blessings,...then and only then, can we start to esteem others,...better than we do ourselves. When our own faults are clearly before our eyes, we have no room left for criticizing others. And when we, in genuine and personal humility, esteem others as we ought, we will cease to look for ways to please ourselves and begin to look for ways to please God,...by helping others. Rather than using others, to better ourselves, we will use ourselves to better others.

How we plan our day,...how we use our time,...how we spend our money,

...these are all barometers, of true humility.

 

Holy Spirit, allow our self-esteem be transformed today into service for others. May we find the great joy and satisfaction, that only and paradoxically comes from giving up on our own pleasures,...for the sake of others. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

 

"The naked truth is always better, than a dressed up lie."