Philippians 2:4 (NIV)
Not looking to your own interests but each of you to the
interests of the others.
I read this today and thought it was a great lesson for each
of us.
A man spoke with the Lord about heaven and hell. The Lord
said to the man, "Come, I will show you hell."
They entered a room where a group of people sat around a
huge pot of stew. Everyone was famished, desperate and starving. Each held a
spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle so much longer than
their own arm that it could not be used to get the stew into their own mouths.
The suffering was terrible.
"Come, now I will show you heaven," the Lord
said after a while. They entered another room, identical to the first -- the
pot of stew, the group of people, the same long-handled spoons. But there
everyone was happy and well-nourished.
"I don't understand," said the man. "Why
are they happy here when they were miserable in the other room and everything
was the same?
"The Lord smiled, 'Ah, it is simple," he said.
"Here they have learned to feed each other."
Wow! What a great lesson in this short story. Are you
taking the time to feed others or are you trying to do it all on your own?
Dear Lord, we pray today that we would work together as
your people and be there for each other. Help us not to try and do it on our
own. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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