January 9, 2023
Using our talents, gifts and skills for our own achievement and contribution to the world is obviously a great goal. Yet when we end up building our lives on these things, protecting them at all costs, and they become our identity, they act as barnacles on the bottom of our boats, keeping us from moving in the world with humility and freedom.
Today we will spend time being grateful for a talent, gift, or skill that we have cultivated in our lives. Then, we will look deeper to see what inner motivation or need may be driving it, so we can move freely and unattached.
Listening portion today:
Have the same mindset as Christ,
Who, being in very nature God,
Did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
Rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant,
Being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man
He humbled himself
By becoming obedient to death – even death on a cross!
Philippians 2:5-8 (CEB)
