What is it you are trying to show me these days, Lord? I want to hear, but I am surrounded by distractions. I am most distracted by attention to myself, my needs, my issues, my problems. So, my distraction is "me." How do I get away from "me?" How do I blot out all of the thoughts, insecurities and attention I give to "me" every day?
I was just lamenting to a friend that my children are awesome, but they don't seem to have a focus outside of themselves. Ah....that would be the fault of "me" .... I have inadvertently taught my children that their own version of "me" is more important than everyone else. Okay, so how do I change this?
Matthew 16 says "Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done." How do I live that every day? How do I make what I want, take a backseat to what God wants in my life? A question for the ages...but a question I am pondering, as I learn how to master my love of "me" and return to my first love, Jesus!
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