Trying to Live By Our Performance for God (TMF:2010)

Friday, January 20, 2023
Peace to Live By: Trying to Live By Our Performance for God (TMF:2010) - Daniel Litton
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       I know firsthand, because in the past I used to spend time helping others with the attitude, “Look how great I am for taking time to help this person for a couple of hours. Yes, I am totally awesome.” You see, though, if this is our attitude, what happens? Well, after we’ve done whatever good work it was, then the good feeling we got about ourselves from doing that good work fades over time. A week later, we may feel empty inside of ourselves because, in doing that good work last week, we had attributed to ourselves that we were a worthy person because of what we did. Now that the work has faded, we are back to feeling like we aren’t adequate. We are basing our worth off of what we do for others, which isn’t coming from a right heart attitude. All of us in the faith—all of us who know Jesus—should do good things for others based on the fact that we really want to. We do it cheerfully as Paul said in another book when he was discussing money. You see, we aren’t ranked in our lives in God’s eyes based on what we do for him or for others.