Selfies on social media, ministries soliciting “follows”, businesses about titles and promotions, and even education telling people what they should be doing with their life.
We don’t have to look very long to see our culture is self-consuming.
Yet, invisible egos can hover around even the most innocent; making marriage about our wants and needs, parenting about performance, and even crafts, cooking, and decorating about comparing our talents and creativeness with someone else’s.
And let’s face it, even in churches we can feel it; that inward pull to make it all about our good works and redemption…
Instead of making our lives set a part, simply for Jesus.
Never before in history have people been so pressured to make life, family, work, and even ministry, all about us.
It’s times like this, scripture must be our focus, worship must be our “go-to”, and holiness must be our standard.
Like the moon reflects the sun, we must look to Him and let His reflection be what other people see in us.
After all, when sinking in a culture of “me” and consumerism, we can drown if we are not intentional about shedding our flesh, and fixing our eyes on the only True One who wants all the glory.
Yet, I am not going to lie. Sometimes selflessness can feel like swimming up a waterfall or resisting a hurricane. Pressing into the quiet can be difficult when the world shouts and blares at us to simply, try harder.
But Jesus, The Perfect One who was God Incarnate, came in the flesh and gives us a model for ministry, taking selflessness to a whole new level.
He got down and washed the feet of the disciples, while others were rising in power. He took on the cross, and often avoided the crowds, seeking refuge in the silence, only saying and doing whatever the Father in Heaven instructed.
And yet, “invisible” ministry is almost unheard of, in a generation of entitlement, a world pointing to themselves in so many ways.
Yet, peace consumes us, His presence fills us, when…
(Click HERE, to finish this article, “Living a Christ-Centered Life is Not About Me.”)
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