On a scale of one to ten, how often do you think about the needs of others and try to meet them? Before you answer, read this: \u2018If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?\u2019<\/i> <\/p>\n
Selfishness is defined as \u2018the state of being overly concerned with one\u2019s self\u2019. Now God is not asking you to sacrifice for others to the point where you jeopardise your own health and mental well-being, then end up resentful for doing so. Nor does He expect you to meet every need that comes your way. He\u2019s challenging the \u2018what\u2019s in it for me?\u2019 attitude of our age in which self-gratification, self-improvement, self-enlightenment, and self-indulgence is increasingly being promoted. Selfishness dies hard, but it\u2019s a stronghold you must break in order to experience the peace and joy that give life meaning. <\/p>\n
BC Forbes, founder of Forbes<\/i> magazine, said: \u2018I\u2019ve never known any human being, high or humble, who regretted when nearing life\u2019s end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one who became haunted by the realisation that they had led selfish lives.\u2019 <\/p>\n
James writes: \u2018If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, \u201cDepart in peace, be warmed and filled,\u201d but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.\u2019<\/i> (James\u00a02:15\u201317\u00a0NKJV) So, think more about others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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