Learning TJ be Christ like is getting rid of my temptation to compare myself to everyone else. Either I’m one up on someone or I’ll never measure up. Either I know more or that guy is a super brainiac. I’ll never have as much as someone or I’m better off. But Jesus has a different way to activate kingdom thinking and living. Love others because He has lived me.
“We're told in Psalms 46:10, to "be still," or to "cease striving," and know that He is God. Some people are familiar with this verse but not the larger context, which is that of someone looking over the remains of a battlefield. The original Hebrew is suggestive of stopping the fight, letting go, and relaxing.
God wants us to drop our arms.
No more defensiveness. No more taking things personally. He'll handle it. Really.
Trust Him. Rest.” - Brant Hansen, Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better
Merrill C. Tenney urges disciples of Jesus: “Unity instead of rivalry, trust instead of suspicion, obedience instead of self-assertion must rule the disciples’ common labors.”
“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends: Jesus described the measure and quality of His love for them, to use as a pattern for the way they should love each other. His love is complete and of surpassing greatness, laying down its life.” - Based on The Enduring Word Bible Commentary by David Guzik.
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