selfish verses selfLESS

       Selfishness and selfLESSness has been on my mind a lot lately. To be selfish according to Websters dictionary is :  concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself : seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being WITHOUT REGARD FOR OTHERS. The Key here is WITHOUT REGARD FOR OTHERS. Meaning, you are only looking out for yourself. When I think about what the world would be like if everyone was like that I am scared out of my mind. If everyone is ONLY Looking out for themselves there would be crime rates SKY ROCKETING because people would not care about the well being of others possessions. Everyone would be single because no one would want to marry someone who does not care about them, and that would lead to either:
 a- no reproducing because no one would want to care for an infant who is SCREAMING all of the time, whose diaper has to be constantly changed, who only WANTS and NEEDS things from you
                   OR
b- OVER population because everyone would only want pleasure, and women would be single with 6 kids because the man did not want to care for other people...
        - or rise in abortions because there would be no care for another's LIFE
And that scares me to death. Selfishness is talked about many times in the bible:


Proverbs 18:1
An unfriendly man pursues selfish ends; he defies all sound judgment.

Romans 2:8 
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.

Romans 15:1-2
We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.


        Now on to selfLESSness. This is what I hope to be. I hope to put others before myself. I hope to help the "least of these" like mentioned in Matthew 25:40:
 " And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."  If we help out others and they help out others then we will eventually create a chain reaction of selfLESS love and life will be so much easier. 
I have a story of great selfLESS love about my friend Richard.


         Richard came here from Africa with his little boy Alexander. He works super hard, but does not make enough money to live a life with ANY cushion what-so-ever. He has no winter coat, no boots, and sends his son off to school with only rice to eat, because that is all he can afford. One day he was down to his last $5, he was running out of gas, but saw a homeless man. He felt like God wanted him to give the man his last $5 and that He would be provided for. So Richard gave the man his money and was told " God Bless you sir. You will be blessed more than you know.". Richards goes back to work and is loading chairs into this woman's car, and she hands him a $30 tip! First of all, tips are not given at his job, but God provided. Richard is what we would consider to be "the least of these" but the homeless man is what Richard considered to be " the least of these". If we all do as Richard did, I truly feel that we would be a better world, and that we would actually BE THE CHURCH.