Treating Others Better Than Ourselves

[LysanderShapiro]

Why would you treat yourself well at all?
What would be the motivation?

What do you mean?

 

[Dave Lucas]

What do you mean?

Why would you want to treat yourself well? What do you gain or profit from it?

 

[LysanderShapiro]

Why would you want to treat yourself well? What do you gain or profit from it?

We should treat ourselves the way we deserve to be treated. We shouldn't treat ourselves as better than we are--that would be prideful. We shouldn't downplay ourselves--that would be false humility.

 

[KingJ]

IF I treat you different than I would want to be treated, we are not on equal footing.

If I treat you worse, not equal, better not equal.

Turning the cheek is do slights, we do not return them in like kind.

The coat and cloak is to give freely, because it is NOT yours to begin with.

All the things you have is God's.

He gave you the job that provides the money. Sustains your health to work that job and therefore you can trade that money for things.

So God gives you that.

Nowhere did it state that you are to give your cloak at your own detriment. In that case you share it.

Nor to allow a person to give or a slight and then let them continue.

Balance. Do not love too little nor too much.

Be complete, like God was the instruction of The King.

You and I get caught in a snow storm. One bomber jacket. Who gets it?

 

[KingJ]

I love this. Christ was spit,beaten upon and so forth..it definitely wasnt fair for Him and He was God..
Being treated like crap isn't fun but forgiving those that wrong you whether it was justified or not makes us different from the rest of the world. This is what I need to work on and master.

Amen. Christianity is upside down reasoning from the world. The last is first. The one who loses his life, finds it .

 

[Dave Lucas]

We should treat ourselves the way we deserve to be treated. We shouldn't treat ourselves as better than we are--that would be prideful. We shouldn't downplay ourselves--that would be false humility.

I agree we should do that.

But WHY would we do that?

 

[LysanderShapiro]

I agree we should do that.

But WHY would we do that?

Because God commands us to love ourselves.

 

[Dave Lucas]

Because God commands us to love ourselves.

So to treat ourselves well is LOVE, right?

 

[God is Love]

I think that's a great practical quote. I think I've heard something like that before, as in always consider others better than yourself. In fact I think its a scripture.

You thinking of Philippians 2:3?

 

[LysanderShapiro]

So to treat ourselves well is LOVE, right?

That's a loaded question, Dave. You'll have to clarify.

edit:
To treat ourselves well isn't always love -- but to love means to treat ourselves well.

 

[Silk]

In our walk with Christ, we have "it all". You should be reflecting this, in your life, to share that message. Who's feet deserved to be washed at the last supper? Who passed Christ's message on?