A surefire recipe to being a miserable person is just think about everything you want and
just working toward what you want without considering the people around you, without
considering others.
You know what?
We need to consider, obviously, first and foremost, what the Lord wants us to do.
That's number one.
We need to also consider how our actions affect our spouse, our children, our parents, our
siblings, our friends, our church, and also even just the lost.
Once we get that down, once we first learn to show piety at home and to love and respect
our parents, our children, our siblings, our friends, and close people to us, then we extend
our love and compassion out even to the lost, even to strangers, even to people that we
don't even know.
And we think about the fact that, you know what, my life could be used to actually get
other people saved.
I could actually take somebody who's on their way to hell and get them on their way to heaven
by preaching them the gospel of Jesus Christ, by showing them the path of salvation from
the word of God.
You know, that's something that is important for us to be doing with our lives and it involves
caring about other people and thinking about them.
You know, we're going to heaven no matter what, those of us who believed on Jesus Christ,
but we need to be thinking about other people.
We need to be thinking about the people out there that are not saved, that are damned
eternally if they don't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And so we need to care about how our actions affect our family, how do they affect our
friends, how do they affect our church, and how do they affect the lost and dying world
that we live in that needs us to be a light of the gospel.
The Bible says in Romans chapter 15 verse 1, "We then that are strong ought to bear
the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves."
Life is not about just pleasing yourself.
But I'm telling you, for a lot of people it is.
A lot of people, their life is just what can they enjoy?
How can they succeed?
How can they become rich or popular or famous or well-known or how can they just enjoy the
most pleasure and good times?
But you know what?
That's not a way to live your life.
And you say, "Well, it sounds fun."
No, it's not fun because anybody who lives their life that way will realize that they're
They're chasing an illusion, you know, and they're just always going to want more, nothing
ever satisfies.