You know that living here on planet earth is anything but a life of total love and harmony. You seek harmony with everyone you come into contact with, but the achievement of that goal seldom occurs. There always seems to be that one person that destroys your harmony.
Lady Astor and Churchill didn’t get along. Lady Astor said to Churchill, “If you were my husband, I’d put arsenic in your tea.” He said, “If you were my wife, I’d drink it.” Ha! Ha! There is a touch humor to stress the point. You desire that utopia, almost at any cost. Just face it; you feel so much better when harmony versus stress is in your life.
The Word of God talks a lot about your being in harmony with other people. Jesus had many talks with His disciples about getting along well with each other and with the world in which they lived. Philippians 2:3 states this truth by saying: “Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves.” Notice, the verse starts with a negative—“Do nothing from selfishness.” That runs cross-grain from the way you live. So much of your daily thoughts and activities center around what you want. So, here it is saying, “Stop it!” The end of the verse commands you what to do place of being selfish. It says that you treat others with high respect. In other words, the respect you show others is to be even more so than the way you treat yourself.
A total utopia will never be achieved here on planet earth, but you can live close to it. The way that you can live in a near utopia is to be totally other oriented. Instead of pursuing what you want, live your life to serve other people. The most important person in all of humanity, past, present, or future, did just that. His name is Jesus and He came to serve, not to be served; that is utopia living.
