Welcome to the JellyTelly 5 Minute Family Devotional
Character Quest with Clive and Ian
Selflessness!
Today's verse is Romans 12:10.
"Love each other like brothers and sisters.
Give each other more honor than you want for yourselves."
Hi everybody, I'm Clive!
And I'm Ian.
What's wrong, Ian?
I don't want to talk about our topic today.
You mean, selflessness?
Yep.
Why don't you wanna talk about selflessness?
Because selflessness means to not be yourself
and I don't wanna not be myself,
I'm the only one of me I've got!
Oh no, Ian.
Selflessness doesn't mean to not be yourself!
Selflessness means to think of others
before you think of yourself,
to love and serve others!
Hmm, that sounds like a lot of work.
Well, it might not always be an easy thing to do,
but when we know that God loves us,
It fills us up, and then we wanna love and serve others!
But if I'm taking care of others,
and putting them first,
who will put me first?
Well, it's not important if we get to be first,
what is important is knowing that God loves us.
and will take care of us!
And I can still be myself?
Absolutely.
I can still wear my Spiderman socks?
Yep!
I'll still be really great at hula-hooping?
Yes, Ian.
I can still eat my favorite peanut butter and salami sandwiches?
Yes, but I don't know why you'd want to.
Jesus is the best example of selflessness that we have!
Jesus is God, creator of the whole universe!
but he humbled himself to be born as a baby
to live on earth - and died on a cross,
all because he loved us so much!
That's pretty selfless.
And Jesus couldn't have been selfless
if he didn't have a self!
He was able to do all of that because of who he is!
And you're able to be selfless
when you remember that it's Christ who lives in you.
I suddenly feel very strong!
Me too.
Let's talk. What did we learn?
What does selflessness mean?
How did Jesus show selflessness?
How do we live out what we've just learned?
Can you think of a time you saw someone be selfless?
Is it hard or easy for you to be selfless?
Let's pray together.
Let's thank Jesus for being so selfless,
and ask him for the strength to be selfless toward others.
For more great shows about selflessness,
check out JellyTelly!
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