Selfishness is like a pac-man.
It just keeps eating and eating and is never satisfied.
If you live to please yourself, you will never be satisfied.
I want this. I want that. I want her. I want him.
You can consume all the dots, gobble them up, every dot you see, and you won’t be satisfied.
Selfishness is sin, and you don’t gobble up sin. It gobbles up you!
Selfishness wrecks marriages and families. It wrecks businesses and churches. And it will wreck your life.
To the degree that you are selfish, to that degree you will be hollow.
But there is a glorious alternative!
Jesus died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him. (2 Corinthians 5:15)
As Christians, the key is that we no longer live for ourselves, but for God.
We take our eyes off of ourselves, off our desires, our wants, our selfish little baby wah-wah-wahs.
And we fix our eyes on Jesus! We focus on Him and we run towards Him!
We want what He wants! We desire what He desires.
Our heart is turned toward Him. We surrender to Him. We love Him and desire Him, and we soak up His Spirit and are filled with the Holy Spirit and fire!
He sets us on fire for Him, for God, for eternity. Our eyes are fixed on heavenly things! And like the old song says, the things of this earth grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.
And selfishness? It melts and disappears, like cotton candy dropped in the ocean.
“He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.”
God bless you, today.
I’m Doug Apple.
It just keeps eating and eating and is never satisfied.
If you live to please yourself, you will never be satisfied.
I want this. I want that. I want her. I want him.
You can consume all the dots, gobble them up, every dot you see, and you won’t be satisfied.
Selfishness is sin, and you don’t gobble up sin. It gobbles up you!
Selfishness wrecks marriages and families. It wrecks businesses and churches. And it will wreck your life.
To the degree that you are selfish, to that degree you will be hollow.
But there is a glorious alternative!
Jesus died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him. (2 Corinthians 5:15)
As Christians, the key is that we no longer live for ourselves, but for God.
We take our eyes off of ourselves, off our desires, our wants, our selfish little baby wah-wah-wahs.
And we fix our eyes on Jesus! We focus on Him and we run towards Him!
We want what He wants! We desire what He desires.
Our heart is turned toward Him. We surrender to Him. We love Him and desire Him, and we soak up His Spirit and are filled with the Holy Spirit and fire!
He sets us on fire for Him, for God, for eternity. Our eyes are fixed on heavenly things! And like the old song says, the things of this earth grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.
And selfishness? It melts and disappears, like cotton candy dropped in the ocean.
“He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.”
God bless you, today.
I’m Doug Apple.
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