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February 28

I once read the story of a philanthropist who took a great interest in a shoeshine boy, so much so that he paid the way for the lad’s education at university and medical school. Years later the young man had become a successful doctor and attempted to pay the philanthropist back. The philanthropist, upon receiving a check from the doctor, returned it to him with the instruction for the doctor to do the same for someone else.

Just what is our responsibility toward others? The apostle helps answer this important question when he writes in Philippians 2:4: “Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.”

Why? He goes on to say why:

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, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! (Philippians 2:5–8).

The loving sacrifice of the Savior calls from us a responding love. John in his epistle says: “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:10). Then John adds in verses 11 and 12: “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us”

Our prayer today should be for our Lord to make us an instrument of His peace.