SELFISH!

Even as I write a series on genuine love, I am without a desire to put others before myself. I desire to please myself and pursue my own desires. I lack care for anyone else. I don't want to serve others. I don't want to be least of all. I need the genuine love that God showed to me! For grace is my strength. I entrust my power to serve and love as I should to come from the strength of Jesus Christ. I will boast in Jesus Christ! Without whom, I have no power, no strength to love. Holy Spirit, I am dependent on Your directions. Without them, I want to revel in my own desires, even my own pitiful emotions: anger, sadness, pain and hurt, jealousy, and others. How absurd-yet true-that I love to dwell on, better yet immerse and engross myself in, anger and selfishness! I am so very thankful for the propitiatory death of Jesus Christ, who died for these very sins! How can I not pledge all my love (and service) in light of all that He has done? God, I look to Your truth!

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Romans 8:26

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10