Your own best interest

You are your own best interest.

...think about what that means to you....

To me, it means I need to be right with God before I am right with anyone else. It means that I need to make sure that I have it together before I see if those around me have it together. It means owning up to my mistakes and admitting that I was wrong. It simply means so much...

Have you ever been in a situation where you hung other peoples failures over their heads? Or you see trouble coming in someones life and deep inside you hope they experience it?

I can't lie with you, I have been that person before. I knew that I was doing things the right way for the most part and when others didn't, I hated to see them succeed. I was selfish in thinking that I was better than those around me.

When I used to really struggle with this I came across a verse in Romans 14 that says: "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue confess to God." 

That verse revolutionized the way that I live and perceive others. I wear a bracelet on my wrist that says Romans 14:11 and I wear it every day and I have never taken it off. I wear it as a reminder that everybody will bow before the Lord someday and confess.

We all have things that we struggle with. I have struggles just as much as everyone else does. But remembering that..me, along with everyone else will bow and confess before the Lord someday. I was so wrong to think I was better than other people just because I didn't struggle with the things that they struggled with.

I came across a couple verses in Esther today that talked about something along the lines of that. Haman, an evil character in the story was impaled on his own poll that was fifty-cubits high.
(about 75 feet)

Haman's hatred and evil plotting turned against him when the king discovered his true intentions. Imagine making something for someone else and then it being used on yourself?

Proverbs 26:27 teaches that a person who digs a pit for others will fall into it himself. What happened to Haman shows that often violent results of setting any kind of trap for others.

My one thing for you today is to never think of yourself above anyone else. You mess up just as much as the person you are thinking about in your head right now. Remember that the only perfect human to ever walk this earth was Jesus Christ. Jesus is the message that we are to preach to others every day. Not the message of our broken lives, but the perfect message...the gospel.

Don't get caught digging a pit for others...