9.11- Leave your crown in the garage.

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 9.11-

Leave your crown in the garage.
Self pity is more deadly than cancer. Self centeredness kills relationships. Pride is going to cause a fall. Godly people who humble themselves will be uplifted.
Keith Luttrell was illustrating this and used this great story from the life of Indra Nooyi, CEO of Pepsico.
She had been trained by her mother to envision being great by reading great speeches and making them first person to her.
On the day she was appointed CEO of Pepsico, she couldn't wait to get home and tell her mother. She walked in the door excited with the news.
Her mother was visiting and as she started to tell her. Her mother interrupted her saying, "The family is out of milk. You need to go get milk now."
She went to the store. Came home and couldn't wait to tell her mother. She ran to the store and got the milk. With the milk delivered she couldn't wait to tell her this big news. "Mom, today I was appointed CEO of Pepsi."
Her mother said, "Congratulations, but when you walk in that door your husband needs a wife and your kids need a mom and your mother needs a daughter. Leave your crown in the garage"
The teacher said, "The way to greatness is to serve."
Leave your crown in the garage.

Philippians 2
2 Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any [a]affection and compassion, 2 make my joy complete [b]by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. 3 Do nothing [c]from [d]selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves; 4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. 5 Have this attitude [e]in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be [f]grasped, 7 but [g]emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and [h]being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death [i]on a cross. 9 For this reason also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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