Philippians 2:4 (The Message)
1-4 If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care — then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
I love this passage. To me it tells you exactly how to live your life. If everyone lived like this, then this world be a much happier place.
I see and hear about so many people who only think of themselves. They are number one in their lives and there is no room for anyone else. They let everyone else and everything else fall in behind them. These people are incapable of putting themselves aside and thinking of others first. They would never think of helping someone else out. Especially if it meant helping someone get ahead. There always has to be something “in it for them”. People who live their lives like that are not very pleasant to be around. They take...take...take and never give anything. It’s pitiful to watch them and I feel sorry for them. The only way they can have a relationship is to bully people into being around them or to enable those who need enabled.
I wish that everyone in the world could be happy, completely and totally happy. I think that first you have to love yourself and then you can love others enough to put them first in your life. If you do not love yourself, then you are constantly trying to fill that void and it's usually with negitive things.
I wish that everyone would read the Bible and take it's words to heart. They are great words to live by.
1-4 If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care — then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
I love this passage. To me it tells you exactly how to live your life. If everyone lived like this, then this world be a much happier place.
I see and hear about so many people who only think of themselves. They are number one in their lives and there is no room for anyone else. They let everyone else and everything else fall in behind them. These people are incapable of putting themselves aside and thinking of others first. They would never think of helping someone else out. Especially if it meant helping someone get ahead. There always has to be something “in it for them”. People who live their lives like that are not very pleasant to be around. They take...take...take and never give anything. It’s pitiful to watch them and I feel sorry for them. The only way they can have a relationship is to bully people into being around them or to enable those who need enabled.
I wish that everyone in the world could be happy, completely and totally happy. I think that first you have to love yourself and then you can love others enough to put them first in your life. If you do not love yourself, then you are constantly trying to fill that void and it's usually with negitive things.
I wish that everyone would read the Bible and take it's words to heart. They are great words to live by.
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