Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Conceited

9 January  2013     

Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.

Some of us that has a long memory will possibly remember the hit song “Its hard to be humble” and although this was written and sung sort of tongue in cheek, there is a lot of truth in it. There are those of that have fasted for forty days, those that pray and get up and spend hours in prayer, they let everyone know what they are doing, and it makes others feel like second rate Christians. We have to so aware to examine our motives with regard to why we do things, is it from selfishness is it because we are conceited?

The older one gets the more one realises that all the people we meet are better Christians than we are. So each person we see, we see the potential of Christ in them. This stops us from being conceited and selfish, simply because we should also be reflecting the image of Christ as well. So no matter how important our position in life, our how grand we may be, we need to recognise the importance of others around us. Sometimes we find it very hard to be humble.

Be encouraged today to stop being selfish and conceited, you are really not that good.

 David

Point to ponder: There is always someone better than you.

Question to consider: Do you believe you are the best of the best?

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