Me:  What are you doing Prodigal?

 

Prodigal:  I wanted to feed the fish they looked hungry.  I was trying to be nice.

 

Me:  That was very nice of you Prodigal!  That was a selfless act on your part.  Let me share with you from the book The Prayerful Spirit by James Gills

 

The reason for our salvation is not be be saved from out problems but to be saved from our selfishness.  Selfishness is more than behavior.  When we’re selfish, we focus on our own wants and needs.  When we’re selfless, we ‘re inclined to God.  It’s the selfish who demand, and they’re miserable.  It’s the selfless who give, and they become close to Christ.  The selfish keep wondering what the selfless are talking about, for they never understand.

 

I know that I can be very selfish.  It doesn’t take much time before I am focusing on me.  God I need this for me.  I need it as a reminder to be inclined to you.  It is when I am selfless and doing what God wants me to do that I have peace and joy.  That is what I want today.

 

But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

Isaiah 59:2

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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