As we continue our week on vision and boundaries, today we'll explore what it looks like to have

vision for loving and serving others well. Is loving people something you do intentionally,

or is it something you believe will happen effortlessly as you live your

life? Sometimes, God is asking us to intentionally discover vision for certain seasons,

and is specific about ways we could minister to or bless someone. Today, may we learn how to serve people

in a healthy, intentional way with good boundaries and vision.

Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our verse for today comes from Philippians to verse four, Scripture says,

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

One of the greatest joys in life is the gift of serving others.

Often in the busyness of work, family, and society, we draw boundaries around ourselves so

tightly that we don't make room to love others well. God's desire is to shepherd

us to a place of inward abundance, not only that we might live in the fullness of life, but also

that we would be empowered to give of ourselves to others.

Philippians 2 verses 4 through 8 says,

Let each of you look not only to his own interests,

but also to the interests of others.

Having this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Christ Jesus who though he was in the form of

God did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped but emptied himself by taking the form

of a servant being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself

by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. In his humble, loving sacrifice, Jesus set before us the perfect example of loving others.

God might not call all of us to physically die for the sakes of others,

but he absolutely leads us to a lifestyle of dying to self self that we might live for the kingdom of God.

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