…. you always got what you wanted?
We tend to describe someone with such an attitude as “a spoilt brat”. It pictures someone who is so concentrated on
him/her self that they have no thought for anyone else’s needs or wishes.
Society disapproves of people like that. But suppose that person’s attitude in life was always other’s good before their
own? Would that make a difference to other people’s attitude toward them?
Jesus was someone who never insisted on His own way. This is what He said: “I do nothing on my own but speak just
what the Father has taught me. The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases
him.” (John 8: 28-29)
Someone once made up an acronym for “Sin” – Self before others, I at the centre, and “No!” to God.
John wrote of Jesus: “He appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.” (I John 3: 5)
In full knowledge of what was about to happen to Him, Jesus prayed this prayer: “Father, if you are willing, take this cup
from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” (Luke 22.42)
