Today has been such a beautiful day. Sipping my skinny cinnimon dolce latte during sunday school, sipping my choffee during church, chinese with my parents for lunch, and studying all afternoon. I also realized tonight that I'm really competetive...I help out with the Middle School Ministry at my church on Sunday nights and tonight we played Minute to Win It...my team won, but it also required chugging a can of coke as fast as possible, which is a really bad idea- don't ever try it. I don't even drink coke, plus I don't feel so great now. Haha. But anyway here's a short post for today to make up for the longest one I've ever written from the other day.
-taye
Selfishness
Re-reading my blog posts and some other items I have written, I have come to realize the extent of my selfishness—not only my selfishness in life, but also my selfishness in my relationship with God. I try to make everything about me, praying things like, "Thank you God for everything you have done for me", "Thank you God for everything you have given me", or "God, please do this for me." Me, me, me.
It is not about me at all! Over this weekend, the Holy Spirit has really been convicting me about that, and yet I continue to fail in become more selfless. Yesterday I was saying something, and my brother, making a sarcastic remark, mentioned something about how it is not all about the "princess"—a rude nickname he has taken to calling me lately. He meant it as a joke, a mere comment, however it really sunk in deeply and set me thinking.
I deserve that nickname; I deserve that remark. I am so selfish, without even realizing it most of the time. But God does not call us to worry about ourselves and our own personal needs and wants, He calls us to simply take up our cross and follow Him. He calls us to become like Him in attitude, and I am pretty positive that Christ was not by any means selfish. He was the exact opposite, and that is what I should start striving for. I should not worry about myself, for God will take care of that, even more than He takes care of the needs of the sparrows. I simply need to trust Him and start striving to be more like Him.
"We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves."
Romans 15:1
"...{Love} is not self-seeking..."
1 Corinthians 13:5
"...do nothing out of selfish ambition..."
Philippians 2:3
"For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice."
James 3:16
One Pure and Holy Passion
Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me one magnificent obsession
Give me one glorious ambition for my life
To know and follow hard after You
Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me on magnificent obsession
Give me one glorious ambition for my life
To know and follow hard after You
To know and follow hard after you
To grow as your dicsiple in your truth
This world is empty, pale, and poor
Compared to knowing you, my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lead me on and I will run after you
Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me one magnificent obsession
Give me one glorious ambition for my life
To know and follow hard after you
To know and follow hard after you
To grow as your disciple in the truth
This world is empty, pale, and poor
Compared to knowing you my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lord to know and follow hard after you
And to grow as your disciple in your truth
This world is empty, pale, and poor
Compared to knowing you my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lead me on and I will run after you
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