Is Everyone Around Simply For Your Personal Fulfillment?

Why do you go to work every day? To get a paycheck?

Why do you go to church on Sundays? To get inspired?

Why are you in a romantic relationship? For entertainment and happiness?

Why do you have friends? To have someone to vent to?

Is everything and everyone around you simply for your self-serving, self-amusing, self-gratifying personal fulfillment?

I know. I know. When I word it like that, I make you sound like a narcissist. And you are far from “a person who is overly self-involved, and often vain and selfish” (Dictionary.com). Right?

Well, maybe not… Let’s take the test over again:

Why do you go to work every day? To build the company to make it advance?

Why do you go to church on Sundays? To serve my brother and pour out to God?

Why are you in a romantic relationship? To demonstrate respect and love?

Why do you have friends? To give away and share all that I have?

How did you do this time?

Here is the point… When you take genuine inventory of your life, do you spend more energy giving or receiving?

Challenge: Make a commitment to add value to people in a very real way.

Last weekend, Kansas City sadly memorialized our beloved brother, Pastor James T Madry. Everyone share a similar sentiment – James added value to everyone in his life. He never seemed to be self-serving. Whether he was cooking a simple meal in his family restaurant or singing a soul rendition of your family hymns. He’s present with the Lord now. But he was a present to us all for 50 years. From him we can learn a lesson on how to add value to others.

How will you add value to your relationships starting today?

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