School your children in King David's winning attitude that Jesus is our victory. The way of the Lord is an attitude that serves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. We cannot walk the way of the Lord with a selfish heart.
Selfishness is diametrically opposed to love.
God is looking for people who will be pipe lines through which His fabulous blessings can flow to others. The way of the Lord is an attitude of deference. The Apostle Paul shows us that deference is joyfully limiting our freedom so that we don't offend another person's taste. If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.