I just came across this clip of Iyanla Vanzant and Oprah talking about people who bend over backwards to helps others and always putting everyone else’s’ needs ahead of their own, causing them to neglect themselves in the process and Iyanla advises them to put God first in their lives by not neglecting themselves as they are a reflection of God.
“…First of all it’s probably inauthentic… that you always put other people before you, but you put yourself last. How you treat yourself is how you treat God, so you are putting God last, because you are the representative of God in your life… Because you are the representation of God in your life, and you put you last and put other people ahead of you, which means you are putting other things and other people ahead of God in your life… In your life, you’ve got to be as good to you as you want to be to God, in order to be of service to others in the world ….. It is self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you, to take care of you, to keep you whole and healthy, that doesn’t mean that you disregard everything and everyone but you want to come with your cup full….my cup runneth over, what comes out of the cup is for y’all, what’s in the cup is mine, but I got to keep my cup full. And so many of us think that… we are going to get brownie points in Heaven, like we are going to get to sit in the box seat section if we just give and give and give and give. Now here is what The Course of Miracles says which I love, The Course of Miracles says that when you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself you make the other person a thief… When you start sacrificing yourself for other people you make them a thief because they are stealing from you what you need and they don’t even know it.” – Iyanla Vanzant
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