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Friday... It can change the direction of our day.


Philippians 2:4 (AMP), "Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others."

Friday... It can change the direction of our day.

Have you found that you can go to bed or get up with a plan and then change the direction of your day? That happened to me today as I was reading in Paul's letter to the Philippians. Chapter 2 verse 4 (Amp) was brought to my attention by the Holy Spirit. Yes, He does follow along in our reading, in our paths for each day. Here is what it says, "Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others."


I had made plans to go another direction this morning but God's Spirit in my back yard couch changed my plans. And it has been a very good change.

Now it is so easy for us to merely look out for our own personal interests. I am the patriarch of this family. My needs need to be taken care of but that is not what the Spirit through Paul's letter to the Philippians says. It says, "Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others."

Now I asked AI what merely means. The Amplified Bible put it in italics. Merely means only or just, and it's used to show that something is not as important, large or serious as it might seem.

Now that one word puts us into our place.

We went through a very difficult situation yesterday. In fact, we have gone through a very difficult year. Now what happened yesterday was my fault but through my planning I had solved the problem before it happened and I was doing some praising but something else came up and I thought because of what I had done then I didn't need to be apart of this other problem. "Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others." Paul was in prison but he was trying to solve other people's needs.

Now I am at a different place than I had planned for this morning and it is where I really needed to come. By the way, I've had so many people stop and talk and even my Pastor was here and I was able to reinforce how much he means to us. God knows what he is doing.

Spending time with God can change the directions of our day. Yes, "Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others." That's what God through Jesus did for us. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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