Ganon

Why did the disciples follow Jesus? It’s simple: He loved them. The Gospels tell us, “When Christ saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them.” Men and women and youth and children are all drawn to a person who loves them. What response do people evoke in you? Do they bother you? Challenge you? Do you like people, or do they threaten

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Philippians 2:3–4

Why do people in the world think of masses (of people) and not as one (body)?” I knew the answer to that question. Jesus looked at me as if I was the only person in the world and the only one who mattered to Him. That is exactly how I understood that we are to see one another—as if the other person is the most important person in the world to God.

God is love, and God loves all of us—every single person! Even the smallest ways we show love to others, expecting nothing in return, turn out to be some of the greatest ways we can love God. And this requires faith.

Humility says, I know I have blind spots. Can you help me see? Imagine for a moment if our relationships were characterized in this way?

In Philippians 2:2–3, Paul says bluntly that Christians should “in humility consider others better than [them]selves.” Notice that he doesn’t say that we should unrealistically try to believe that all others are better than us in every way. That would be nonsense. Rather, we should consider and count the interests of others as more important than o