It's All About Him

 

2Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

As Scholastic Books Coordinator for our local homeschool group, I see all the titles of the books that are being peddled to our nation's children. One caught my eye recently. The title was "It's All About Me".

This focus fosters a mentality that says I am the center of the universe and everything better go MY way. One could easily twist the verse above to say that all things will go my way...otherwise how can they be for my sake? I can see how one would read it that way with the mind-set of today's society.

However, in context, "all things" in the verse above refers not to everything that goes our way, but rather to all those things that don't go our way. Listen to the verses that follow it:

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)

Another verse that talks about "all things" is Romans 8:28-29

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Is it really all about me? Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." If I always expect things to go my way, then I am not going the right way, because Jesus is the way. It's all about Him. Romans 14:11 says, "For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God." Also in 1Corinthians 10:31 it says, "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."

Frank Sonatra sang a popular song that says, "I did it my way..." This also fosters the idea that it's all about me. What many people don't realize is that in the end we will all do it God's way whether we want to or not. All will bow the knee to His name either joyfully or in sorrow. Philippians 2:10-11 says, "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

No, it's not all about me. As we go into the week before Christmas let's remember it's all about Him. May God give us the grace to give glory to Him every day.

Dear Father, I pray that You would be glorfied through me in the things I do, say and how I respond to the trials that come my way. This is an area that I struggle so much with. In Jesus' Name, Amen.