What Are You Looking For?

What is your motive behind what you are doing today?    For those around  you.   Your family, your friends,  your co-workers, the stranger you just happen to meet......  Are you looking for self recognition?   Are you looking for self accomplishment?   Are  you wanting accolades from them or God?   The scripture on Bible.com today was ....

"Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves."  Philippians 2:3  

There are many key words in this scripture that we need to understand.

• Strife is angry or bitter disagreement.  
• Vain is to be excessively proud of your own abilities, accomplishments, or beliefs.
• Glory means honor, praise, or distinction.
• Lowliness is the state of being humble or unimportant.
• Mind is the part of us that thinks, feels, wills, perceives, and judges.
• Esteem is to regard highly or favorably with respect and admiration.
• Better means in a greater degree.

So God is telling us let nothing that we do be done out of angry or  bitter disagreement.   We are not to be excessively proud in our own abilities, accomplishments, or beliefs and bestow honor and praise on what we have done.    Instead we are to be humble and consider ourselves as unimportant in what we think, feel, will or perceive.   We are to regard others more highly and favorably than ourselves by treating them with respect and admiration in a degree which is greater than we consider ourselves to be.

Trust God today....
Believe His Word today.....
Do His Word today.....

"Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God,

that He might exalt you at the proper time..." (I Peter 5:6)

Worship For Today

"Give Me Your Eyes"

Ministered By Brandon Heath