Me!!! First

When I was returning from college today, I saw an ambulance blaring its sirens and trying to find a way in the busy city roads. The other vehicles in the traffic were rather very slack in giving way, not wanting to loose their leading places on the road. After a rather clumsy scene the ambulance roared its way ahead...And the scene that followed!? a group of vehicles racing behind the ambulance crowding the road further.

My pal looked at me and said.."See what's come upon us?", "Our work has become more important than someone's life".

What happened on the road shows a miniature model of how the world works today. Pursue your own good everywhere, anywhere, and always even if it is at the cost of somebody. People call it 'Competition'. I call it 'Selfishness'. Our world is seeing progress in leaps and bounds , but it is also seeing terrorism, poverty,hunger, pain,crime in the same rate because of being self-centred. We are afraid to help, hesitant to rescue, and apathetic to the needs of others.

India's has a GDP growth of 9.4 percent which is way high compared to other asian countries and it is expected that it will emerge as the third pole in the global economy after the US and China. But the mortifying fact is that this phenomenal growth rate is not helping 70% of the villages drowning in poverty.

When I see the world around me, I remember my Lord, God of Creation, King of Kings, Majestic God, who for the sake of this sinful world took human form and was exposed to the worst form of torture. Jesus is the perfect embodiment of selflessness. Only Jesus taught us that if you want to be first, you got to have a servant attitude.When we surrender our life to such a God, we too die to ourselves and by His grace live a life that reflects Him, a life that loves others as we love ourselves. There is no other way this world can change...... Until the Glorious return of Jesus Christ...

Mark 10:43-44
...... Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.

Luke 10:27
....'Love your neighbour as yourself.'

Phillipians 2:5
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.