Now my thought about the title was sparked because of a verse that Jeanne and I were reading during our morning devotions together yesterday. This has been a practice of ours for many years, to read a few scripture verses and pray together to begin our day. We just started reading the book of Proverbs from The Message. Yesterday's passage contained this verse:
Proverbs 1:19
When you grab all you can get, that's what happens:the more you get, the less you are.
That thought stayed with me throughout the past couple of days as I have also been personally meditating upon Paul's words from Philippians 2:5-11. These verses instruct us as to the type of attitude that we should have. Verse 7 reads that Jesus "made himself nothing" in the NIV translation. God's Word Translation says "he emptied himself . . ." How opposite is Kingdom living from worldly living. In the Kingdom of God less is more. To "empty oneself" is to have less of self in order to allow more room for God. But if we choose to grab more of the world and make room for more of our selfish desires the less there will be of God in our lives. More is less and less is more!
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