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Previous Daily Devotional About
whose life you live… Luke 14:7 When he noticed how the guests
picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: 8
"When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place
of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. 9
If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, `Give
this man your seat.' Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important
place. 10 But
when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he
will say to you, `Friend, move up to a better place.' Then you will be honored
in the presence of all your fellow guests. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will
be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." (NIV) As
you live your own life, whose life most concerns you? As you live your own life,
whose failure most concerns you? As you live your own life, whose success most
concerns you? As you live your own life, whose hurt most concerns you? As you
live your own life, whose progress in life most concerns you? As you live your
own life, whose freedom most concerns you? As you live your own life, to have a
better and happier life, you must be able to always tell the truth. To have a
better and happier life, you must confront certain truths to find your freedom.
One of your most important jobs in your physical and spiritual life is to see
how every person is born into a state of being doomed by in-born selfishness.
When we fully admit and fully comprehend how we are selfish, then we can do
something about our selfishness. When we do not fully admit and do not fully
comprehend our selfishness, then our selfishness remains an invisible enemy
against which we have no defense. Selfishness is at the root of sin. To free our
souls from this eternal chain and slave master called selfishness, we must be
honest about who we are and what we are. If we cannot admit we are selfish and
we cannot admit we are a slave to our selfishness, we remain enchained and
blind. Being enchained and blind, our life is then steeped in failure and doom.
If we deny we are innately selfish, our denial puts a cloud of ignorance around
our heart and mind. With a cloud around our heart and mind we are not able to
truly see beauty, we are not able to truly see others, and we are not able to
truly see God. When we turn away from our innate selfishness, an act we call
repentance, the cloud around our heart and mind is lifted. When we turn away
from our selfishness, we are able to see, perhaps for the very first time, the
beauty of life, the beauty of God, and our own inner beauty Christ died to save.
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