Our Me Monster is toxic.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is not self-seeking. Love is not easily angered.

The more self-seeking I am, the more easily angered I become.

Me Monster

• Me: self-seeking
• Monster: easily angered

Our Me Monster is incompatible with love.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
Philippians 2:3-4

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
James 1:19-20

We all have a Me Monster.

Homo Incurvates In Se: Man Curved Inward

Our Me Monster becomes a rage monster.

Bottom Line: Love bends toward others.

Following Jesus will correct your curvature.

We are to bend toward one another.

Action Steps:

Prayerful Reflection

• How big is my me monster right now?  Where does it show up?
• How sharpened am I toward anger?  Who or what am I easily angered by?
• Where is Jesus inviting me to bend in love toward others?
  

Practice

• This week, bend toward someone else in love.
• Notice what happens in you when you do so.