It All Starts With God
Originally Written August 17, 2009
Point to Ponder:
- It's not about me.
- How can I remind myself today that life is really about living for God, not myself?
While I don't think I'm a selfish person, I'm still definitely guilty of having a self-centered perspective at times. I feel as though I've spent the last three decades doing nothing other than trying to define myself.
I'm going into this process (of reading through The Purpose-Driven Life book and this journal) as a seeker. (And yes, I realize the potential pitfall of again defining myself). I don't know where I'll be in 40 days on September 25 when the book ends. But, I'm more than ready to admit that what I've tried on my own in terms of defining an identity has not worked.
But, because I'm still seeking, I need to make a really conscious effort to remind myself to live for God, not me.
We're in the middle of a series right now at Quest called "Courageous Choices," and that will be mine going into The Purpose-Driven Life. I have to realize I can't define myself - as a scholar, as a seeker, or anything else.
My main barrier is an offshoot of this - I feel like I have to know everything about a subject to get into it. And I feel that way because "knowledge" is the main part of my self-constructed identity. That I can't accept that I can't possibly know everything involved in being a Christian has so far kept me from enjoying the relationship I see in others at Quest. If I can learn that "it's not about me," maybe I can move forward.
Verse of the Day
"Everything was created through him and for him."
- Colossians 1:16b
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