The Ultimate Selfie

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Headline #1 – The Ultimate Selfie is Dangerous

The big buzz at Disneyland this past June was the ban placed on selfie sticks.  Apparently someone got hurt using their selfie stick going down Splash Mountain.  But that is not the ultimate selfie.

The ultimate selfie is selfishness.  It is there because God’s divine love isn’t.   The infection of sin in us has made our love selfish.  Against it a Christian fights everyday.

Selfishness is not a word that we hear too often in our culture.  We hear narcissism, which means nothing to people.  We hear self-absorbed, which also means about the same – nothing.

Self-centered implies a personal accountability for what we think, say and do.  That is why we don’t hear that word too often anymore.

But selfish, well, that nails it – what is going on inside.  Selfish is all about me.  I am the epicenter of the universe.  I am most important.  If it feels good, I will do it.  If I hurt someone, so what.

The Epistles couple selfishness with ambition.  Everywhere we see this happening, even in us, for we are weak and sinful creatures.

Selfishness keeps us stuck on a favorite, pet sin, justifies our bigotry or racism, finds a perverted satisfaction in abuse of another, or ourselves, and leads to all sorts of sinful behavior.

Headline #2 – God’s Love Destroys Selfishness

In our Christian walk, we try hard to fight against our selfishness.  God is gracious to forgive us our sin through our Lord Jesus Christ.  A blessing of forgiveness is that He builds us up so that we can say no to selfishness.

The Holy Spirit through His Word is daily transforming our mind so that we can see the blind spots of our selfishness.  He fills us our hearts with God’s holy, divine, agape so that with changed hearts we decide to not be selfish.

The power of the Spirit in our mind and the love of God in our heart is a formidable force that destroys selfishness.  Ask the Spirit to transform your mind.  Open your heart to God’s love.  Enjoy the freedom from your sinful flesh.

Something to think about.

In Him Who so loved us,

Pastor Augie