Humble Lord,
As I listen to Richard Lui’s fascinating book about “selflessness”:
“What if your path to a more successful, healthy,
and satisfying life is actually not about you?” (Enough about Me),
I am reminded of just how very selfish I can be.
If not for your gracious intervention,
I would make every moment of every day “all about me.”
Humble us, Lord.
Help us empty ourselves of our self,
not because it’s the way to have a more “successful, healthy, and satisfying life,”
but because it’s your way.
You have called all of your followers to follow you
in denying ourselves (Luke 9:23),
to “do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit,
but in humility count others
more significant than yourselves” (Philippians 2:3).
We confess, it is only by your sacrificial blood
and by your raising us to new life
that we can live for you and not for ourselves.
In your self-emptying name. Amen.
Read Philippians 2:1-11; Luke 9:23; 2 Corinthians 5:15
