When 6'8"s stoop to help 3'3"s

"His glory was that He laid aside his glory, and the glory of the church is when she lays aside her respectability and her dignity, and counts it to be her glory to gather together the outcasts." Charles Spurgeon

"Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant." [Phil 2:5-7]

I have seen first-hand this truth: Real and satisfying joy is not found in fame, fortune or fancy cars, but in going, giving and great grace. I have said this before. The most fulfilled and satisfied believers are those who have left all for the joy of serving Christ by serving others. We, who live in America, are so conformed to the world that we are not even aware of how the riches of this world and the security they promise have become a stumbling block to our joy. I do not write as an outsider. I am fully conformed, too. I also struggle with the belief that if I can just get enough things I will be happy and secure. Then, according to my unbiblical reasoning, I will have enough so that I can share the excess with the needy of the world. How unworthy of the name of Christ is that?