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Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Philippians 2, 3 through 5. In our current series here on Bright Harth on being human, we're talking

about four aspects of life where a man or woman can grow, improve, and become more fruitful

as a result. So that's the physical, the spiritual, the social, and the vocational.

I think most people immediately think of the physical as one of these kinds of categories.

Same with the spiritual and even the vocational.

All of those are obvious places where we spend a bunch of our time

and where a lot of our fruitfulness either happens or doesn't.

It's obvious that I can either

neglect my body and let it fall into disrepair or steward it well and make it a fitting

servant of my mission. It's obvious to the Christian that the life of the spirit is even more

important, that even if the body wastes away, for example, our inner self may be renewed day

after day in the image of its creator.

Even the vocational is obviously an area of great importance. After all, our vocations are what we

do with most of our time. They're where we primarily do our duties, spend most of our time and

either succeed or fail. But that other aspect of

life, the social, might not immediately have come to mind. Neglecting it, though, would be a massive

mistake. The social aspect of human life and being a person is one of the most powerful places

where you can either walk in joy and fruitfulness or in frustration and even misery.

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