We Are One

Welcome to today's encouragement for my daily bread.

My name is Jill Dixon today in we are one. I'm sharing the story that God used to teach me how to love my neighbors as I love myself in a small farming community news travels fast. Several years after the bank sold the farm. David's family had owned for decades. He learned the property be available for sale. After much sacrifice in saving David arrived at the auction and joined a crowd of nearly 200 local farmers with David's meager bed be enough. He placed the first bed taking deep breaths as auctioneer called for higher bids. The crowd remained silent until he heard the slam of the gavel the fellow farmers place the needs of David and his family above their own financial advancement.

This story about the farmer sacrificial act of kindness demonstrates the way the apostle Paul urges followers of Christ to live.

Paul warns us not to conform to the pattern of this world by placing our selfish desires before the needs of others and scrambling for self-preservation.

Instead, we can trust God to meet our needs as we serve others. As the Holy Spirit renews our minds we can respond to situations with God honoring love and motives placing others first can help us avoid thinking too highly of ourselves as God reminds us that were part of something bigger. The church, the Holy Spirit helps believers understand and obey the Scriptures. He empowers us to give selflessly in love generously so we can thrive together as one.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is from Romans chapter 12 verses 1 to 5. Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is his good, pleasing and perfect will. For by the grace given me I say to every one of you do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you for just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we know many form one body. Each member belongs all the others. Let's pray father God thanks for reminding us to see past our personal space.

Please read this of our selfishness so we can love selflessly and stand as one with our brothers and sisters in Christ.

In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread ministries