Thanks for joining us for today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading is titled Seeing with New Eyes, and it was written by Wyn Collier.

A video game, one that's become a cultural phenomenon, places 100 players on a virtual island to compete

until one player remains. Whenever a player eliminates you from the contest, you can continue to

watch through that player's vantage point. As one journalist notes, when you step into another

player's shoes and inhabit their point of view, the emotional

register shifts from self-preservation to communal solidarity.

You begin to feel invested in the stranger who, not too long ago, did you in.

Transformation happens whenever we open ourselves to see another's experience, looking beyond our own vision

and encountering another's pain, fear, or hopes. According to Philippians chapter 2, when we follow

Jesus' example and do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit and instead in humility

value others above ourselves, then we

notice things we would have missed otherwise. Our concerns broaden. We ask different questions.

Rather than being preoccupied with only our own needs or angst, we become invested in others'

well-being. Rather than looking to our own interests,

we become committed to the interests of others. Rather than protecting what we assume we

need to thrive, we joyfully pursue whatever helps others flourish. With this transformed vision,

we gain compassion for others. We discover new ways to love our

family. We may even make a friend out of an enemy.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Philippians chapter 2, verses 1 through 5.

Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love,

if any common sharing in the spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded,

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