Today I met this man in line at Target, he asked me if the 4 children with me were all mine. Yep. He commended me and said he was impressed because he's the "full-time" Dad to 2 girls who are 2 and under!! What?!? Further, his wife is living in the psych ward in the hospital because she still has post-pardum depression on top of a fairly new diagnosis of being bi-polar. Wow! No sir, you are the one who is to be commended; if I had 9 children I still also have the help of a spouse. The single parent has the more challenging job. Plus--- I'm spoiled rotten by my husband. The more of his story he told the more I see that he is not seeking his own... he is seeking the best for his family. Hoping that his wife "comes back" in an emotionally responsive way and home soon after. Hoping he can just make it through another day. I don't know anything else about his life, though I did ask him about his relationship with Jesus. In this area of his life --family-- he is seeking what he hopes is the best for his children & wife; and he is living this getting absolutely nothing in return.
Love "does not seek its own" also means that we must seek God first! Jesus said concerning God, "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you" Matthew 6:33. Read all of Matthew 6 by clicking here. The more we press in to God, seeking Him, the less self-seeking we'll be. Seeking God is the key to being worry-free:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is
not life more important than food, and the body more important than
clothes? Look
at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in
barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more
valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If
that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and
tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you,
O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Seems to be the way to both Joy and Love. <3
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