LETS KILL THAT SELFISHNESS TODAY WITH UNSPEAKABLE JOY: LETS MAKE THE SPIRIT OF GIVING – RULE THE DAY IN OUR WORLDS FOR OTHERS JOY!
“Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with JOY UNSPEAKABLE and full of glory: 9 receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls” 1 Peter 1:6-9.
I know sometimes it’s difficult to be out there for someone else when you are going through some personal challenges that are overwhelming too. But I have come to know and understand by God in Christ Jesus, that an exceeding great JOY – the unspeakable, indescribable and immeasurable joy – is experience in the love act of GIVING first to others, before the our trinity self which I called – I, Me and Myself, otherwise ascribed sometimes as the me, me and me. For it takes the desire to extend the unspeakable joy to others to kill the spirit of selfishness and self-centred life style. Living a selfless life towards God and man in Christ Jesus stead, it’s the only way to bear along others burden by the incredible opportunity that we may have that others don’t have. Life is about sharing the good and goodness to others who are vulnerable and limited to life resources with our abundance or even the so called little we have as the biblical widows mite we’ve all heard or read about.
“I have shewed you all things, HOW THAT SO LABOURING YE OUGHT TO SUPPORT THE WEAK, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE” Acts 20:35.
“And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were RICH cast in much. 42 And there came a certain POOR widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this POOR WIDOW hath cast MORE in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: 44 for all they did cast in of their ABUNDANCE; but she of her WANT did cast in all that she had, even all her living” Mark 12:41-44 [Luke 21:1-4].
The word JOY to me means J for JESUS – as the first, O for OTHERS as the next and Y for YOURSELF as the last. And I’ve found JOY indescribable and absolutely thrilling ever since I have learnt this act in my doing life and living godly in Christ Jesus stead through the years. And I highly recommend it’s application to you without prejudice, sentiments and dissimulation, and it’s irrespective to whoever and whatever.
For the act of love and loving, is embedded in the spirit of GIVING to others first, hence, God so love that He GAVE first and the best, not leftovers and rejects. That’s the how to kill the selfishness and selfish spirit in you and about you, in order to make love purposeful, meaningful and fulfilling.
“For God so LOVED the WORLD that He GAVE His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” John 3:16.
Therefore, TODAY, while and when it’s called TODAY, think about what’s that GOOD and GOODNESS of you in terms of – TIME, EFFORT, FINANCE, MATERIAL – that you can GIVE to make a huge and great difference in someone else’s life without complaining and murmuring. That’s what love and loving is all about – in giving to someone else’s first, before the you-self trinity within. Endeavour to give it a go today and even now.
As said earlier, the fulness of JOY can be attributed as pleasing JESUS and OTHERS, then YOURSELF. Meaning preferring in this order as said FIRST [J] – Jesus and Second [O] – Others and before You [Y] – Yourself.
The exceeding great JOY of God is of the hearts, born in human spirit of love and loving. Therefore, put an end to SELFISHNESS – and start LOVING, start GIVING today and even now as an ONWARD and UPWARD trajectory in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the LOVE of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us . . . 8 But God commendeth His LOVE toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:5, 8.
I do pray that you may experience the exceedingly great and fulness of God’s joy today as you express your acts of love and loving in the GIVING first spirit today.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK!
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“For God so LOVED the WORLD that He GAVE His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” John 3:16.
“GIVE, and it shall be GIVEN unto you; GOOD MEASURE, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men GIVE into your bosom. For with the SAME MEASURE that ye mete withal it shall be MEASURED to you again” Luke 6:38.
“Thou wilt shew me the PATH OF LIFE: in thy presence is FULNESS OF JOY; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” Psalms 16:11.
“When they saw the star, they REJOICED with EXCEEDING GREAT JOY” Matthew 2:10.
“I have shewed you all things, HOW THAT SO LABOURING YE OUGHT TO SUPPORT THE WEAK, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE” Acts 20:35.
“The DESIRE of the RIGHTEOUS is only GOOD: but the EXPECTATION of the WICKED is WRATH. 24 There is that SCATTERETH, and yet INCREASETH; and there is that WITHHOLDETH more than is meet, but it TENDETH to POVERTY. 25 The LIBERAL soul shall be MADE fat: and he that WATERETH shall be WATERED also himself” Proverbs 11:23-25.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI