August 4
We live in a world where the general consensus is that we must, ‘look out for number one.’ If we don’t mind the things that concern us with diligence, we will slip up, we will fail to achieve our goals, or, we will be undone by someone who is more clever than we are and who will take advantage of our ineptitude.
This is not a very optimistic outlook and it doesn’t afford us much incentive to interact with kindness and respect with those around us. It is a mindset that requires us to be forever ‘on guard’ against our own inability to foresee the future and our neighbors’ proclivity to wield whatever advantage they can muster against us to their own ends.
And it is at total variance with the heart of Christ whom we profess to love and serve. It flies in the face of all He would have us to do and to be. It negates the efficatiousness of God’s assurance that He will establish the work of our hands,’ Psalm 90:17. In light of this contradiction, the looming question becomes, ‘Do we trust Him?’
And if we trust Him to truly take care of, to bless and prosper us to the degree our talents and insights can take us, can we then trust Him enough to obey His admonition in Romans 12:10 to, “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love, honor one another above yourselves”? Can we make others, rather than ourselves, number one?
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