Bible Passage: “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.” (Philippians 2:3)
Scripture Reading: Philippians 2:1-5; Hebrews 12:2
Have you ever heard of the acronym WIFM?
These four letters have long shaped the strategies of advertising and marketing agencies.
“What’s in it for me?” is the philosophy that says a business will be successful when it can understand the customer’s needs and desires and build its strategy around what’s in it for the customer.
Marketers know us. We are more likely to purchase something when we understand how it benefits us.
If people in our culture are wired to think, “What’s in it for me?” the thoughts of humble men should start with, “What’s in it for the other person?”
C.S. Lewis once said a humble man “will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all.”
Sometimes, you can focus so much on becoming humble that you lose perspective of living with humility. Humility is not something we naturally possess; it is the fruit of how we think about the needs of others in comparison to our own.
This is the central idea the apostle Paul is conveying in Philippians 2. Humble men are more concerned with the interests of others than with their own interests.
When Jesus left Heaven to come to earth and die on the Cross, He demonstrated the attitude and mindset of humility. He obeyed His Father and made humanity’s need for a Savior the driving force in His life.
Humility is cultivated by adopting the same attitude as Jesus (Philippians 2:5).
This is not a way of life that only serves the big moments. It is a mindset to be practiced in how you interact with the people around you daily.
If you are married, consider your wife more important than you. If you are a dad, consider your kids more important than you. As a friend and co-worker, consider others more important than you.
Here’s what’s great about the mindset of humility: The other person wins, and so do you. The Father exalts Jesus, and Jesus also endures suffering because joy awaits Him on the other side.
Pride leads to one person winning, but humility leads to everyone winning.
Prayer: Father, change my mind to think more of others, and help me turn those thoughts into action. Amen.
Reflection: Where in your life is there a tendency to think of yourself as being better or more important than others? What does it look like to consider the other person as more important than yourself?
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