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It’s All About Me, Or Is It?
“It’s all about me.” That is one of Satan’s first recorded sins. I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High Isaiah 14:13-14 (NIV).
Boasting
While we may not say these words out loud, unfortunately we often live them out. Happiness, we assume, will come when life is all about me. When I get what I want, go where I want to go and get the recognition and gratitude I deserve – all will be as it was meant to be. It sounds so right, doesn’t it? It feels like it should be true.
Self-glorification comes easily to us. Subtly, we are quick to point out our education, our looks, our weight, our jobs, and our exemplary spiritual service, anything that gives us a supposed leg up. We like it when the world rotates around us.
Like Satan, we forget that all glory is to go to God.
Self-Pity
“It’s all about me,” comes in a more subtle form as well: self-pitying. We can complain about how poor, under-appreciated, overlooked, and over-worked we are, still making it all about us and once again displacing God.
Whether through accomplishment or pain, our temptation is to encourage the world to center its orbit about us, trying to find happiness at the center of it all. But drawing attention to ourselves will always lead to disappointment and loss.
Cosmic Chaos
Picture for a moment our solar system, all those planets revolving in carefully choreographed orbits around the Sun. What would happen if all of a sudden the Earth became the center of the solar system, and all the planets scrambled to switch their orbits. Are there even words to describe the chaos that would result?
Glory to God
It’s like that when we place ourselves at the center of our world. Only God is glorious. He really is the center of it all. Jesus came so that we could behold and better understand the centrality of our God.
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us,
and we beheld His glory,
glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 (NASB)
Jesus is the glory of God in the flesh.
“It’s all about me,” can only end in sadness and despair as in futility we try to steal glory from God. This moves Him out of the center of our affections and everything spins out of control.
Thus says the Lord, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 (NASB)
Listen to audio “It’s All About Me, Or Is It?” & Learn:
Living for anything other than God is the clear road to despair. When we focus on what’s important to us we are not reflecting God’s glory but trying to generate glory of our own. This will move Him out of the center of our affections and then everything will spin out of control. Learn how to glory in your God and draw energy and life from Him.
- Learn the dangers of living for self
- Explore the 3 things that always lead to self-pity
- Hear the true story from one woman who was set free
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