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Why is it important to serve one another? How can we go about doing this?
According to the Bible, selflessness is an important quality to have. Learning how to serve one another is crucial for becoming a selfless person, and has the added benefit of improving your mental health.
Keep reading to find out how to serve one another—and why it’s important to do so.
Why Should We Serve One Another?
The way to defeat your enemy of complacency and its lie of self-indulgence is to choose others over yourself, to seek their good over your own comfort. See Jesus’s words: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23).
Choosing to serve one another sets in motion the ultimate positive, upward spiral:
- You choose to serve.
- So you take risks for Jesus.
- So you begin to see past yourself, to other people’s needs.
- So you do things for God’s glory.
- So you lean progressively more on his divine strength.
- So you feel a deeper longing to worship him.
- So your enhanced worship makes you want even more of God.
- So you take more risks.
- And so on.
Here’s a visual showing the negative spiral of complacency and how to reverse it by choosing others over yourself.
How to Serve One Another
There are two primary ways to serve one another, one spiritual, the other practical:
Set Your Mind on Things Above
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