Living with people will cause you to be selfless. I have 3 roommates and I had a dilemma today as I walked into the kitchen. There were dishes in the sink that weren't mine and had been there for about 4-5 days. Kinda gross in a way but yet not compared to when I was in India. Anyways, I have to say that for the past number of days I just said to my self , "there not yours so don't do them" which in someways is true cause people need to be responsible for there own mess, but not cause I am called to a life of sacrifice. So today as I made something to eat, I looked at the sink and God very simply said to me "do the dishes". After a minute of thinking I did them. Now granted its only a few dishes that took about 5 minutes of my day. But it was the lesson I had to again learn. My life is not my own. Very profound but very simple.
My life is God's and at His service. And in his service I am called to live to death of self and life to God (Rom. 6:10). In having 3 other roommates I must and will continue to learn selfless living and humility as I live in this house. I am convinced that this love is fulfilled in this act of selflessness. We see this in a great way with the creator of the universe taking on human skin, living with us, dying on the cross and raising from the dead. This I speak of is the greatest act of humility in Jesus Christ the Son of God (Philippians 5:5-11). As I walk through life as a friend, son, brother, boyfriend and so on I am called to be humble and sacrificial to all around me.
I have been given so much in this life and want to continue to give to those around me. I want continue to learn from this example and others as God leads. In this I don't know what God will bring across my path in the next few hours, days or weeks, but I can choose to walk in the way on my God has laid out for me; whether humility, gratitude, death to self or the many others I should live out. But I have been learning and am seeing that gratitude is the gateway to the spiritual realm. In this I want to end with a verse from the bible that speaks about this subject and says,
"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Y'shua, giving thanks to God the Father through Him." (Colossians 3:17).
My life is God's and at His service. And in his service I am called to live to death of self and life to God (Rom. 6:10). In having 3 other roommates I must and will continue to learn selfless living and humility as I live in this house. I am convinced that this love is fulfilled in this act of selflessness. We see this in a great way with the creator of the universe taking on human skin, living with us, dying on the cross and raising from the dead. This I speak of is the greatest act of humility in Jesus Christ the Son of God (Philippians 5:5-11). As I walk through life as a friend, son, brother, boyfriend and so on I am called to be humble and sacrificial to all around me.
I have been given so much in this life and want to continue to give to those around me. I want continue to learn from this example and others as God leads. In this I don't know what God will bring across my path in the next few hours, days or weeks, but I can choose to walk in the way on my God has laid out for me; whether humility, gratitude, death to self or the many others I should live out. But I have been learning and am seeing that gratitude is the gateway to the spiritual realm. In this I want to end with a verse from the bible that speaks about this subject and says,
"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Y'shua, giving thanks to God the Father through Him." (Colossians 3:17).
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