Have you heard the expression, “There is no I in team”? To me it seems that this world in which we live is driven by what “I” want or don’t want. What seems best for “me” is the direction most people travel. The big topic of conversation today seems to be, to wear a mask or not. What are “our” rights? What is more comfortable for “me”? We could trade this topic with so many others. As a child of the King, we are to serve Him at all cost. What I would challenge you to ask is what better serves Him? How might I deny myself for the Kingdom sake? There is no self in Christian.
Matthew 16:24 (NIV)
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Galatians 2:20 (NIV)
20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Matthew 22:37-39 (NIV)
37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'