Day 17

Selflessness brings out the best in people..
It builds trust in relationships..
In fact, when you start acting selfless in a relationship, the other person changes too; when you’re selfless, you’re not the same person anymore so they have to relate to you in a different way..
Some of the most unlovable people that no one wants to be around with are transformed when someone is kind and selfless toward them. When someone is given what they need, not what they deserve, they change in beautiful ways..
What does selflessness mean? It means less of “me” and more of “you.” It means thinking of others more than you think of yourself and putting other people’s needs before your own..
This is the biblical principle of sowing and reaping. What you sow, you’re going to reap. When you sow selflessness, you reap God’s blessing. This is how He’s wired the universe: the more unselfish you are, the more you are in God’s favour. He wants you to become like Him, and He is unselfish. Everything you have is a gift from God, a result of His unselfishness towards you..
On the contrary, selfishness destroys relationships..
It is the number one cause of conflict, arguments, divorce, and even war. Every trouble starts because of self-centeredness..
It’s very easy for selfishness to enter into relationships. When you start a relationship, you work really hard at being unselfish. But as time goes on, selfishness begins to creep in. People tend to put more energy into starting relationships than they do in maintaining them..
Learn to love without condition. Talk without bad intention. Give without any reason. And most of all, care for people without any exception..
Forget about the wrong things people do to you. Don’t try to get even. Love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD. (Leviticus 19:18)
“Don’t be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.” (Galatians 6:7-8)