It's All About Me

I wanna talk about me, wanna talk about I, wanna talk about number one, oh my me my. What I think, what I like, what I know, what I want, what I see...I wanna talk about me. Toby Keith song lyrics

So, I'm selfish. I've realized this. It's a problem.

When I really try to dig down and investigate the motives behind much of what I do, I see that on any given day the thoughts running through my head are very similar to an opera star warming up: "Me-me-me-me-mememememeeeeeeeee!"

I heard a speaker recently discuss James 4:1-3: What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

Preach on, James.

I am praying for more of God and less of me. That He would increase and I would decrease (or as I saw on a bumper sticker: +>i< ). It can be hard for a girl who used think she was the center of the universe and sometimes still forgets she's not. And even when I am actively striving for this God-centered attitude instead of a me-centered focus and am successfully living in such a way that is indeed glorifying to God, if I am not careful, it can be so easy to fall into the pride trap, patting myself on the back and thinking, "Wow, I am being SO godly!"

When I actually type that out, it seems ridiculous. But it is true.