Why Do We Want To Make This About Something Else?

Why Do We Want To Make This About Something Else?

Why do we want to make this life about something else? More about ourselves, our bodies, ourselves, really what makes us so self –involved? I wonder if people were always this way. I wonder if they were like this during biblical times during the times when Christ was physically here in a human body. Not that he is right now or anything like that. The compelling power of Jesus sure can make you humble. And yet we still want this to be about ourselves.
When Jesus walks on water he asked Peter to walk with him on the water and he did until he noticed the wind, he began to sink. He made that moment about the storm; they all did until Jesus got back into the boat. They were even afraid of Jesus when it happened. I know I would probably be shocked too, but the disciples shouldn’t have been afraid. It’s alright Jesus is here it’s all going to be alright. Sometimes this is too hard to believe. It doesn’t have to be, we make it that way, cause again we make it about it ourselves. The disciples had a fear in themselves, but they also had faith in Jesus, but they chose fear over faith, which is something else.
Faith is what will happen and fear is what could happen. God is in control, he makes all things possible and yet we want control our lives. Is it really in our nature to be full of ourselves? Jesus was a humble man, this seems to be hard to believe sometimes cause I know if I did all the things that Jesus did I would want to credit myself for doing it, but it was really God doing those things. Jesus is God so he does get to credit himself, and yet he is a humble man.
We can make God into something else entirely and this completely wrong of us to do and yet we do it. We want this to make sense. Christianity has always made sense to me Christ is someone I can always rely on but I can’t always rely myself and that’s ok. Christ is not just here for us to fall back on though he is here before that moment when we cry for him.
He is what we put our hope, faith, and love in, and he gives all those things in return to love other people for God is Love. Again we can make love mean something else. Something carnal, love can be apart of sex in marriage, but outside of it it’s sin not only is it sin against ourselves but sin against the person you’re with.
We should never be boasting about what we’ve done. We can tell people that we did it, but we don’t have to make it about ourselves. Try to focus on the event not yourself. Still this is hard to do cause we want the give the gratitude to ourselves for being great instead of what happened that was great. For greatness comes from God. Michael Jordan use to have a series of ads for his company Air Jordan, one of them said, “Greatness, you don’t want greatness,” In a way it is something we don’t deserve but it is thrust upon us in situations, situations we can’t explain for it was Jesus that said who among the table is greater the king sitting being served or the servers, Jesus calls the servers greater. Jesus calls us to serve others just like he did, and yet we want to serve ourselves and serve ourselves first.
This gives a reason to pray before our meals and give that food to God to make it holy. If we think of him before we think of ourselves he is making what we do holy. For he gave us what we are doing in the first place, we so often forget this all the time really we have given our lives to God through salvation but we don’t want to give it completely to him. If we could this would be so easy. I don’t think God intended life to be easy.
Why don’t we take a road less traveled, when to you look to God first your perspective changes it becomes about doing something for his glory and not for ourselves.