March 21 Devotion

IT'S ALL ABOUT

On a recent popular TV talk show I hear again the phrase, "It’s all about Me." What does God think when he hears his children make this statement? Is this the way he would want to us to live our lives? Does he look with favor on us and our self centered and sometimes pushy acclaim at taking care of self first? A former President in a recent book states that a person should have as their goal "complete agape, self sacrificial love"

Is God crying when he sees us do things that say to him we are all wrapped up in self? What he asks of us with his help is to take our ordinary life and place it before God as an offering. By fixing our attention on God we become changed from the inside out, and we become his servants. We can say-

"The life you see me living is not mine, but it is lived by faith in the son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me" Galatians 2:20

How do we live our life and do it to please God? In the popular book "90 Minutes in Heaven" Piper states that the reason we have for fully living is to give everything we have to God-even the heartbreak and pain-God is our reason to live.

So during this lenten season help us to live more fully the life God would have us to live, that we may move beyond the idea that its all about me to declare with joy that we are living to please God

Marilyn Holleron