It's All About........

"It's all about me!" I don't ever recall saying something like this, but is this indeed how I live?
How much time do I spend thinking about how what others say and do effect me?

The reason I complain, whine, fight, and speak out arrogantly against others because I am the center of my world and in reality I am saying: It's all about me!

But the truth is, it's about God! We are willing to say that. We proclaim it loudly, and sing about it and try to lead others to think that way, but is that the way we live? Is it really what we are saying? An illustration/story from a book I'm reading, Crazy Love, was helpful to me and has me thinking. I'd like to share it with you.

Francis Chan, the man who wrote this book, says, so many of us think and live like the movie of life is all bout us....... Now consider the movie of life............

God creates the world. (Were you alive then? Was God talking to you when He proclaimed "It is good" about all He just made?)
Then people rebelled against God (who, if you haven't realized yet, is the main character in the movie), and God floods the earth to rid it of the mess people made of it.
Several generations later, God singles out a ninety-nine-year- old man called Abram and makes him the father of a nation (did you have anything to do with this?).
Later, along come Joseph and Moses and many other ordinary and inadequate people that the movie is not about. God is the one who picks them and directs them and works miracles through them. In the next scene, God sends judges and prophets to His nation because the people can't seem to give Him the one thing He asks of them (obedience).
And then, the climax: The Son of God is born among the people whom God still somehow loves. While in this world, the son teaches His followers what true love looks like. Then the Son of God dies and is resurrected and goes back up to be with God.

And even though the movie isn't quite finished yet, we know what the last scene holds. It's a scene Fracis Chan describes in chapter one of his book: the throne room of God. Here every being worships God who sits on the throne, for he alone is worthy to be praised.

The author goes on to say, that from start to finish, the movie is obviously about God. He is the main character in the movie. How is it possible that we live as though it is about us? Our scene in the movie, our brief lives, fall somewhere between the time Jesus ascends into heaven (Acts) and when we will all worship God on His throne in heaven (Revelation). We have only our two-fifths of a second long scene to live. Then he challenges us to ask whether we are going to make our two-fifth of a second about us or about God?

It is after all about God. It is God's movie, His world, His gift.

Who is your life about? Is your life lived like God has captured your heart , soul, mind, and strength? Are enamoured with Him or yourself? What does a life captivated, thrilled, and wrapped up in God look like?

These are things I am evaluating and ask that you join me on this journey.

What are you doing to purposefully cultivate a deeper love for God? Please feel free to share how you are doing this and perhaps we can encourage one another to make much Him.