Reason #6: To Demonstrate God's Love to Others

Are You Loving Others as Well as You Could?

We can demonstrate love to others by seeking good health.

If you are anything like me, you feel useless when you spend a day out of commission. There is so much work that needs to be done, and you cannot do much when you can barely get out of bed. When I find myself in this condition, I sometimes feel bad about putting the extra burden on my family.

Have you ever felt this way? If you are blessed with a loving family, they will pick up the weight without complaining. I am thankful for this loving response from my family.

Tis Better to Serve than Be Served

I know from experience that I would much rather be serving my family, than having them serve me because I am ill. As Christians, it is our goal to serve, not to be served. Serving becomes nearly impossible when we cannot take care of our own needs.

Paul put it this way in Philippians 2:3-4, “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.”

Now I want to be careful here. I know that we oftentimes feel helpless concerning our health. We feel that we did not choose to be sick or ill; it chose us. But we do have a responsibility.

If we can find answers to our health problems in God’s Word, we need to diligently seek them. We need to do this not only for our sakes but for the sake of those we love. Here is where we can become selfish.

Please listen carefully and cautiously. I am not trying to bring guilt. I am only trying to demonstrate how the condition of one's health affects others.

Seek to Be Well with All Your Might

An unwillingness to seek God for answers to health, and/or an unwillingness to apply God’s principles to our lives because they are inconvenient, may be an indication that we are thinking of our own good above the good of our family or others.

This also applies to those who are in good health and are not willing to sustain it by applying biblical principles.  You may be feeling great today, but if you are making poor health choices today, they will catch up with you. Someday, someone in your family is going to have to take care of you.

We must seek good health so that we will not be a burden on those we love.

I Corinthians 13:5 reminds us that love does not seek its own. If we care more about seeking the conveniences and pleasures of now, knowing that the choices we make may provide bad health in the future, we are not showing love to our family.

However, if we seek good health and put aside the harmful conveniences and pleasures of now, we can demonstrate sacrificial love. At the very least, we need to examine our lifestyle in view of God's Word to see that we are doing all we can to be in a condition to serve others.

Let’s learn to live under God's design so that we can demonstrate love to others.

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