Others as More Significant

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

                                             Philippians 2:3

               Paul is asking us here to consider other people better than our own selves in humility and as we do things to not do them with a selfish attitude. Humility is not to think less of yourself, but to think of yourself less. To not have a confidence problem and have issues with who you are, but to think about how to please yourself less. This verse is personally very convicting to me and something I struggle with. I so many times go around judging people and looking at them as less important, not as pretty, not as smart, or even sometimes not as Godly as I am. And that is a sin. I so many times put myself above others and judge them before I even know them. But as this verse says, I need to consider others more significant than myself. It doesn’t matter how I feel about a situation, how “horrible” it may be for me. But I need to be more concerned about how others are feeling and how comfortable they feel. It comes down to what we’ve been talking about so much here, dying to self. Dying to what I want, dying to how I think things should be, and dying to how much better I think I am than others. And really placing myself below them and putting their needs above mine. This is such a simple concept but it’s so difficult to live out, at least for me. I have never been a people pleaser, so for me to put what other people want above what I want is not natural. I naturally just do what I want and disregard how others may feel about it, at least most of the time. Especially when it comes to people that I don’t consider my “friends”. I have learned that I will do anything for my friend and those whom I love most, but when it comes to people I don’t really think of as friends, I could care less what they think or if they even get there needs met in a sense. Through this verse and the study of it, God is showing me how serious this is and how I need to lay that down to Him and ask Him to help me with it. As it says in Romans 12:3- For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Application- pray for an opportunity to act this out in my daily life here and apologize to my team for being selfish in this way.