The Good Word For Today: SELFISHNESS August 5, 2013 Selfishness: Caring mainly for oneself and hardly at all about others; Showing or caused by an excessive care for oneself and disregard of others. “Usually he is most empty who is most full of himself.” –A.G. Lawson “He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.” –Tertullian “Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.” –Leo Tolstoy Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. “We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us – And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness – Redemption is this, to forget self in God.” –Frederick W. Robertson Matthew 6:19, 20, 21 “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Exodus 20:17 “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour’s. “Selfishness is the great unknown sin. No selfish person ever thought himself selfish.” –Southern Churchman Titus 1:7 “For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;” 2 Peter 2:10 “But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumption are they. self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.” James 4:2, 3 “Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 21:27:14 +0000
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