What If It’s Not All About You?
By Brian Jakowski
What if every person on earth put the best interest of others before their own? How would a world, in which everyone’s clamoring “It’s all about me,” change?
With society’s unbridled pursuit of its own self-interest, the nuclear family is teetering, while mental health issues, abuse, violent crime, and war are on the rise.
one fact looms on the horizon. Our world is rapidly collapsing on itself and racing toward destruction!
A Counter Culture Solution.
The answer though unpopular has been with us for thousands of years,
“If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being in one spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only for your own interest but also for the interest of others.” Philippians 2:1–4 NIV
Paul’s request flies in the face of common lifestyle practices today, just as it did when he wrote it. However, counter-culture his idea seems, as disciples of Jesus, we’re called to live by these words in…
