We are not God’s gift to humanity. God can use each of us, but he doesn’t need any of us. We are valuable but not indispensable. You love. But who loved you first? You serve. But who served the most? What are you doing for God that God could not do alone?
How wise of us to remember Paul’s antidote to joy-sucking self-promotion. “With humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself” (Philippians 2:3).
Here is a helpful exercise that can turn your focus off yourself and on to others. During the next twenty-four hours make it your aim to celebrate everything good that happens to someone else. Keep a list. You will move from joy to joy as you regard other people’s success as more important than your own. And this is how happiness happens.
