SEARCH
My First Book:
You Cannot Help Others Without Helping Yourself!
Posted in: Uncategorized by DannyTice on January 18, 2010
Ironically when we help others we get helped ourselves. Perhaps it would be a selfish motive to just help others so that you can get encouraged – but when we help others we are blessed in the process. Selfishness and being self-absorbed leads to depression and emptiness. When we are going through a tough time the tendency is to draw a circle around ourselves and place all of our attention to what is inside that circle; ourselves! The more we self-focus the emptier we become. When you find yourself in a hard spot resist the temptation to become preoccupied with your needs and wants. R.C. Sproul recently said if you make the word JOY an acrostic it would mean this: J = Jesus first, O = Others second and the Y = Yourself last. When we live life in that order we have Joy. Proverbs underscores this principle of placing others above yourself.
“A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.”
Proverbs 11:25 (NIV)
Watch the video clip below of an interesting story I told Sunday of someone that was in a challenging time and yet thought of others instead of herself.