One of the things I love most in people is a humble spirit. There is nothing that can replace someone who is not proud or boastful. This is actually one of the main reasons I feel in love with my husband. He is the most humble person I know. He is the type of person that has a lot of things to boast about and many accomplishments, but he is not the one who will tell you about them. He works so hard. Not to show off but for his personal drive. He has worked so hard and after 3 years of working full time and taking MBA evening classes, he is about to graduate! I am the one who has to brag on him!
I feel it is the type of thing that it is better for people to bring up your accomplishments and be humble. Rather than trying to show off! I admire this quality in people a lot. It is so cool to know someone and like them and then have no idea what they do. To like them for who they are and not what they do. I always would prefer for someone to like me for the real me. I never pretend to be someone I'm not. I have a personal motto that, "I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not."
Obviously I would prefer to be liked. "Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible." 1 Corinthians 9:19 I try to love like Jesus loves, to be his disciple. I want to love one another as Jesus loves us. "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another!" John 13:35 NIV
Andy Stanley brought up a great point the other day during part of his series "Christian," there is a tension when we want to love like Jesus. We are often tempted to resolve the tension. Don't walk away from the truth that we are sinners and accepting the grace to be loved by Jesus. He brings up the story in the Bible where Jesus tells a crowd that whom ever has never sinned they can throw the first stone. We have to live a life full of truth and grace. Jesus came to seek and save, he came for sinners.
The truth is we are sinners, and the grace is Jesus couldn't love us less!! We must love others this way!
You can hear more messages from Andy Stanley by clicking here.
I feel it is the type of thing that it is better for people to bring up your accomplishments and be humble. Rather than trying to show off! I admire this quality in people a lot. It is so cool to know someone and like them and then have no idea what they do. To like them for who they are and not what they do. I always would prefer for someone to like me for the real me. I never pretend to be someone I'm not. I have a personal motto that, "I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not."
Obviously I would prefer to be liked. "Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible." 1 Corinthians 9:19 I try to love like Jesus loves, to be his disciple. I want to love one another as Jesus loves us. "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another!" John 13:35 NIV
Andy Stanley brought up a great point the other day during part of his series "Christian," there is a tension when we want to love like Jesus. We are often tempted to resolve the tension. Don't walk away from the truth that we are sinners and accepting the grace to be loved by Jesus. He brings up the story in the Bible where Jesus tells a crowd that whom ever has never sinned they can throw the first stone. We have to live a life full of truth and grace. Jesus came to seek and save, he came for sinners.
The truth is we are sinners, and the grace is Jesus couldn't love us less!! We must love others this way!
You can hear more messages from Andy Stanley by clicking here.
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