Money and pride in us generate significance with people and the world, but love and humility finds favor with God. What compose you?
Do not love this world or the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases god will live forever. 1 John 2:15-17. ‘Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven. Matthew 6:1
We constantly pursue fame in money and pride but sidestep the true riches of God which are patience, kindness, generosity, love, gentleness, self-control, joy, peace, faithfulness and goodness. Galatians 5:22-23. Today, we unconsciously are bondage of fame in money and pride.
When God show up in our world, he came as a lowly person, insignificant. He wasn’t seeking for fortune or fame. He only wanted to fulfill God’s will to love us by dying for us to reconcile us to the Father, Creator who alone have mercy and unfailing for us, his children created out of his own hands. Throughout Scripture, Jesus always taught us about humility and love. Our Saviour Jesus prioritizes love and humility throughout his teaching. Washing the feet of his disciples, meeting needs of the less fortunate, attending to the poor and sick, examples of servant hood, suffering and dying at the cross for us when we were still his enemies are just some of his deeds that amaze us.
If you believe you are a product of Christ love and humility at the cross, are you a product of Christ love and humility amidst His creations? (1 Corinthians 13:1-3)
Remember that our Saviour God wasn’t seeking fame or fortune that is of this world when He came to save us (Read Matthew 8:20). He came prepared to suffer all our sufferings. He came because He loved us.
(Read more about our suffering Saviour God who alone love and have mercy on us in Christ Jesus in Isaiah 53).
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