Daily Butter 4/13: Not about me

My little addition to Our Daily Bread (4/13/12):

 

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is experienced in your endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.

(2 Corinthians 1:6 HCSB)

 

I often think of the phase “It’s not about me” as a reminder that it’s about Him and for His glory and (as Dave Brannon reminded us in today’s ODB) ultimately through His power, a different point jumped out at me. As Paul noted to the believers in Corinth, he and his travelling companions endured for the sake of their brothers and sisters. Not only do we endure to reach the prize (Rom 8:16-18; Phil 3:12-14), but as an example to fellow believers that they may see His strength, grace and peace through our endurance.

 

- Andy Jentes