Big business and corporate America has us believing if we don’t have “this” or wear “that” or drive “that car” or eat at “this place” then we must somehow be losing a game we didn’t even know we were playing. We are taught to be winners, and to “go for it” and to “be somebody.”

Paranoia is just fears about self. As individuals we feel we are so important that somebody wants to do us harm or take something from us. When the reality is far fewer people are actually thinking about us than we think, because everyone is too busy thinking about themselves to care about anybody else.

This is counter to what God wants us to be — servants.

Jesus taught that the least will be the greatest and that the last will be the first in Heaven. Jesus — God in the flesh — knelt down and washed feet. He touched the sick, the unclean and the leperous. He walked among the lowest and healed them and fed them and taught them. Jesus was not interested in what those people could give Him, but He was interested in what He could do for them.

We need to pray, to meditate, to walk with God and learn the Word and put it into practice. The process of sanctification automatically causes one to be more humble and selfless.