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The Secret to Your Best Life

One of the greatest lessons I’ve learned is that you can’t be both selfish and happy. I know this is true through my own personal experience, but more importantly, the Bible has some things to say about the attitude we should have about “self.” For example, love is not selfish. In the Amplified Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:5 says love “is not self-seeking.” In 1 Corinthians 15:31, the apostle Paul said, “I die daily [I face death and die to self],” which basically means he was not self-seeking but