I have this big meeting tomorrow. I mean, it's huge. It's literally the equivalent to my "Bar Exam". My meeting will determine if I'm commissioned by the church to be a provisional elder. However, in the past few weeks, this process has consumed me. Paper work, preparing Bible studies, sermons, and doctrinal questions were all part of the process. It was easy to fall into the "poor me" cycle where you just sit around and whine.
In the early church there was a term for this sort of selfish preoccupation: cor curvum in se (curved in on ourselves). It's not that hard to put others before ourselves when our life is in proper order. Often, by sheer force of will, I have consistently thought of others before myself. However, when my life is in upheaval, that all goes out the window. Mature Christians learn to do it all the time. Are you cor curvum in se?
Scraps:
-Share a time when you were curved in on yourself.
-Did you "force" yourself out of it, or did you find that you had to rely on God to do the work?
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