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From Gary.... Just one more picture...




I don't understand: What is with this "selfie" craze?  Humm, maybe this picture might give us some insight?  Taken atop the Princess tower in Dubai, this tallest residential building dwarfs everything around it. And to top it all off- two guys taking a "selfie"!  What would motivate them to do this? Accomplishment; well, getting all the way up there certainly is a feat in itself. But, they don't look like explorers, just ordinary people taking their own picture. Uniqueness; probably not- it seems like everyone is taking "selfies" today. My best guess (I really don't KNOW WHY) would be pride. Look-at-me, I am somebody, I am the center of everything around me and I am IMPORTANT!!!

Perhaps this picture would make a good visual definition for the ME generation; where the world revolves around ME because I AM IMPORTANT.

This is not reality, but rather fantasy. For those of us who follow Jesus Christ, we have a different goal- to be like HIM!!! The apostle Paul puts it this way...


Philippians, Chapter 2 (WEB)
1 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,  2 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;  3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;  4 each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. 

 5  Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,  6 who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,  7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.  8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.



And besides all this, when you are concentrating on yourself, you may or may not be aware of your surroundings. And that could be dangerous...


Just sayin...