Its Not About Me...But it is For Me

The popular phrase “Its not about me” is true. There is a grand story that God is telling and it is bigger than me. There is a life with Christ that far exceeds my self motivating, self serving, my self, self, self agenda.

But you know that is not the whole story.

One abuse or distortion I have seen is the thought that I am expendable. All God really cares about is His glory. If that means I must be miserable so be it!

Or what about the distortion that basically translates “God loves because He has to but doesn’t really like me. After all it is not about me”

And this one is really sick. You have to go through the religious exercises and programs of your church however boring, misguided, unloving, because, well it is not all about you.

Hmm..Does that sound like Ephesians 2:1-10? Especially verse 7!

1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.
4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.


You see there was one who was expendable. There was one who laid down heaven and the right to be God and became man. There was one whose passion for the Father took Him to the cross. And the Father’s passion was us.

So you see it is not all about me and yet it is for me. As Jesus said it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. God delivered me from my selfish narrow agenda into a much bigger, grander one …the glory of God…the joy of the Trinity,

It is not about me. It is about Us.