{"id":265,"date":"2016-11-16T10:40:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T10:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2024-09-03T09:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:23:24","slug":"daily-devotional-in-philippians-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/philippians\/daily-devotional-in-philippians-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Devotion in Philippians 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Philippians.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Philippians-300x105.jpg\" alt=\"Artwork found in Philippians from a 1611 KJV\" class=\"wp-image-2022\" style=\"width:419px;height:147px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Philippians-300x105.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Philippians.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Artwork from a 1611 KJV.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Philipp2.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>HEAR the devotion and KJV chapter.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daily Nugget:<\/strong><br>Philippians 2 teaches a principle that the world, including our public educational system, has not understood for quite some time.&nbsp;Again and again, it is taught that \u201cyou are the most important person,\u201d and building one\u2019s self-esteem should be a priority.&nbsp;That is the opposite of what the Bible teaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this chapter, the Philippians were reminded that instead of building up one\u2019s pride, one should make others\u2019 needs more important than their own.\u00a0Likewise, instead of being prideful about ourselves, we should be humble.<br><em>\u201c\u2026 but in lowliness of mind \u2026\u201d (Philippians 2:3).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse three says we should \u201c\u2026 esteem others better than themselves.\u201d&nbsp;Instead of being number one, we should be lower in rank. Meeting others\u2019 needs should be paramount in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some quickly retort, \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be healthy for me if I didn\u2019t feel good about myself.\u201d&nbsp;It is not talking about \u201cfeeling good about yourself\u201d here. You will feel better about yourself if you put others\u2019 needs above your own.&nbsp;You will feel needed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We usually feel best about ourselves when we have accomplished something positive for someone else.&nbsp;If you want to feel good about yourself, and you should, meet the needs of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have talked about this among the elderly in nursing homes where I preached.&nbsp;They have admitted this biblical truth to be true in their lives.&nbsp;They recall the happiest days of their lives to be when they were raising their children. They were so busy working to pay the bills, spending long hours doing their children\u2019s laundry, and taking their free time to play with their youngsters that they did not have time to think of themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many in those facilities have admitted that now there is no one else to take care of except themselves.&nbsp;They often find that their self-esteem is lower.&nbsp;They fight depression more in their latter years than they did when others\u2019 needs were a higher priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contrary to the biblical one, today&#8217;s philosophy only produces selfish people.&nbsp;Ones who only think of themselves and how they should have their needs met are usually the most miserable, unsatisfied people. The more self-centered folks get, the worse they feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding yourself feeling low?\u00a0Feeling like there is no purpose in your life? Get your mind off yourself and do something for others.<br><em>\u201cLook not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.\u201d Philippians 2:4<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Thought:&nbsp;<\/strong><br>\u201cOthers, Lord, yes others; let this my motto be.&nbsp;Please let me think of others before I think of me.\u201d \u2014 Author Unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words to Understand:<\/strong><br>Esteem: regard highly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Reading:<\/strong><br><em>Philippians 2<br>1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,<br>2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.<br>3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.<br>4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.<br>5&nbsp;Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:<br>6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:<br>7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:<br>8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.<br>9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:<br>10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;<br>11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.<br>12 \u00b6 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.<br>13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.<br>14 \u00b6 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:<br>15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;<br>16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.<br>17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.<br>18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.<br>19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.<br>20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.<br>21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ&#8217;s.<br>22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.<br>23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.<br>24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.<br>25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.<br>26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.<br>27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; 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