Jul

25

Live for Others

Post Category: Blog Posts, Makes You Think, Social Justice 

“Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Don’t think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and what they are doing.” (Philippians 2:3-4)

I read these verses in devotions today. It seems we have to constantly remind ourselves that this whole life thing isn’t about us! It’s so much bigger than what clothes we’re wearing, what we’re driving, and where we live. Those things seem so inconsequential when we take our eyes off of ourselves and look at how people live in the world around us. When thousands die each day because of lack of access to clean water, the fact that our cappuccino got messed up at Starbucks this morning seems kinda petty doesn’t it?

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