More Important Than Myself

[540 words] If I can learn to truly regard others “as more important” than myself (Philippians 2:3), then I will have taken a giant step toward living day by day as a faithful child of God. I struggle with this concept in some aspects and don’t struggle with it in others. How can I view the person who has nothing and lives off of the government as more important than myself? How can I consider a person who does not match my intellectual abilities and talents as more important than myself? I can do it by looking at Jesus, that’s how. How do I compare to Jesus? Like a drop of water in the bottom of an otherwise empty 50-gallon drum, I am nothing, and the Lord died for me. One person wrote that the person who is able to think this way is “the one who is so conscious…