Cgeneration devotional

Luke‬ ‭12:15‬ ‭NLT‬‬

“Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Because your Life is not measured by how much you own.””

James‬ ‭3:16‬ ‭NLT‬‬ says

“For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.”

Ezekiel‬ ‭28:17‬ ‭ICB‬‬ says about Lucifer:

“You became too proud because of your beauty.

You ruined your wisdom because of your greatness.

I threw you down to the ground. Your example taught a lesson to other kings.”

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Pride is a terrible thing, keep off!

James‬ ‭3:16‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.”

Philippians‬ ‭2:3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.”

Hebrews‬ ‭10:7‬ ‭NLT‬‬

‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God— as is written about me in the Scriptures.’””

What is driving your ambition?

Should we be ambitious as God’s children and and what kind of ambition should we have?

In 1 Timothy‬ ‭6:9‬ ‭GNB‬‬, the bible says

“But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction.”

But Ecclesiastes 9:10 says ‘whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your

might ‘.

So how can we have a balance and what does God’s word say?

Luke‬ ‭6:32-33‬ ‭ICB‬‬

“If you love only those who love you, should you get some special praise for doing that? No! Even sinners love the people who love them! If you do good only to those who do good to you, should you get some special praise for doing that? No! Even sinners do that!”

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Psalms‬ ‭103:10-12‬ ‭GNB‬‬

“He does not punish us as we deserve or repay us according to our sins and wrongs. As high as the sky is above the earth, so great is his love for those who honour him. As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our sins from us.”

Genuine love is not convenient but sacrificial. It will cost you and sometimes hit you where it hurts. Sacrificial love requires that we set aside ourselves, set aside our own desires, needs, wants, pride etc for the benefit of others. Jesus made sacrifices and gave himself up for us. Who are you making sacrifices for?

1 John‬ ‭3:16‬ ‭NLT‬‬ says

“We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.”