Why is our world so selfish? Would living in harmony, serving your brother, be so hard if everyone did it? Instead, we are forced to be obsessed with our own selfish gain. All sin is selfish... Murder, rape, domestic violence, pornography, war, poverty, crime, drugs, adultery, STD's, prejudices.... the list goes on and on. No one ever sins for someone else... sin happens because humans are selfish! The sins don't have to be big. Why do you think we lie... selfishness. Why do you think we gossip... selfishness. Why do you think we turn away from those in need... selfishness. Why do you think we envy... selfishness. In James 3:16 it says "For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice." Selfishness is man's fundamental defect and fear is the root of it all.
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."- Oscar Wilde
God sent his only Son to die for us, the most unselfish act possible, so that we could corrupt His world with selfishness?
I feel like we have all missed the point.
2 days ago
3 comments:
very convicting
K... on a serious note, I have never though about sin being a result of selfishness... for what ever reason I haven't put the 2 together. I couldn't help but think James 3:16 was describing the United States.
On a less serious note.. I read your title and I immediate thought, "Stop being so selfish!" from veggie tales when Jimmy and Gerry Gourd were running the show for Larry and Bob... And the Swedish guy wouldn't share his strawberries and the other guy wouldn't share his bananas...
ANYWOO... that's how my mind works.
I don't know whether that is funny, or whether I should feel sorry for you that you relate serious topics to veggie tales! ha!
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