Is there an 'unselfish' button we can push somewhere? Hurrah for the day when all will be made right!
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As I was working today, I asked myself, "What makes a woman shirk responsibility to her family so she can pursue her career and get a PhD in psycology so she can be a school counselor, while her high school son struggles with drugs, her husband goes around looking tired and frustrated, and her house is a wreck except for once every two weeks, after I clean it?"
My inner response was "selfishness." I started to think, "How can a person be so selfish?" And then the thought nudged me...
"Selfishness...the same thing that makes you snap at your little brother and hurt his feelings, or think dishonoring thoughts about your dad, or feel sorry for yourself when you aren't the center of your friends' universe."
Ouch. Yeah.
Selfishness manifests itself in so many ways. Just because I would never want to be a working mom for my family's sake doesn't mean that I am free from self-seeking dreams or desires.
You explain selfishness to a little kid by warning him that it's when he takes the biggest piece of cake for himself, or when he grabs a toy from his sister. That's selfishness. Wanting the best for yourself.
And that best can be of anything...the best reputation, the best record, the best impression, the best material things, the best dreams, the best life, the best satisfaction, the best friends, the best of other people's time, the best...you name it.
My heart is loaded with selfishness.
But, my Lord and Saviour is anything but selfish. And that's such a blessed relief. I don't have to stress out because God might decide that He doesn't want the best for me, after all. He DOES want the best for me...but it's a different best than what my human ideas are.
"As for God, His way is perfect."
"Oh that my ways were directed to keep Thy statutes!"
"In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths."
One day there won't be any more selfishness in this poor heart. I can "love Him with unsinning heart" as the hymnwriter put it. Wow. That will be the day!
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