If you're careful, you'll notice life lessons everywhere.
At the grocery store, there was a gentleman in front of me that had a good amount of stuff in his basket. He turns to me and asks, 'Do you want to go ahead?' I replied, 'No, I'm ok, thank you.' Then another guy (who wasn't even in line yet) comes out of nowhere and takes him up on the offer, ignoring the other people behind me.
What happens after that?
The next register opens and the cashier asks the man who offered his place in line to come so he can get checked out. The one who tried to jump in ahead of everyone else had to wait longer than the one who offered for others to go first.
Now, am I saying that this will always happen? Absolutely not. I am saying though, that thinking of others is better than being selfish.
'Lord, may Your love guide us to love as You love. You didn't come to be served, but to serve. Your love is unselfish. Your love is beautiful. Help us to grasp a better understanding of this love and may it not just change us, but those we come in contact with. Thank You Father, we love You. In Jesus' name, amen.'
Phillipians 2:1-8
"Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."
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