It's About part 3
It's about love. Which means it's about people. Because love is giving... giving everything you have and everything you are... to people. I always talk about God and people. Loving God and loving people. Loving God BY loving people. I want so badly to be able to help people--that's my goal in life, a lot of the time, just to help people--I want so badly to be able to help people see past themselves. Because I think that's where we get stuck. When you feel like you're lacking something (even though you're not), when you feel like you're missing something, it's so hard to do anything other than trying to get what you think you lack. That's why people spend (waste) so much time and effort looking for love in all the wrong places. And settling for way less than what's available to them. And I almost wrote "way less than what they deserve," but the truth is deserve's got nothing to do with it. Unless you prescribe to the theory that we deserve love simply by being. That everybody deserves love because the God who IS love created us in order to love us. I can get with that. That sounds good and right and proper to me. But that's the thing: If everybody "deserves" love then we can't deny it to anybody. We can't put ourselves first. We have to, as Philippians 2:3 says, "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves." In the Message Bible it reads, "Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead." I like that so much. Put yourself aside, because it's not about you. But I don't think there's any way to do that until you understand that you have no lack because your God has not lack. Until you understand that you are who you're supposed to be and you have everything you need. You can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. And you can't give anything when you're trying to get everything. When you're focused on you... you can't focus on anything, or anybody, else. How could you? Psalm 8:4 says, "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" God is mindful of man. Because His mind is full of us. We are always on His mind. So we need to be mindful of each other. Fill our minds with each other. Look each man to the things of his neighbor. Don't worry about yourself. You're covered. Your heavenly Father has your back. He can--and will--keep you from falling. And the best way to keep from falling... is to help others stay on their feet. The best way that I've found to feel love... is to love somebody. To stop worrying about what I (think I) don't have... and to share what I do have. To shift the focus off of myself and onto the people in my life. That's what it's about: Relationship. Connection. Sharing what you've got. Giving it away. It's about God and people. And love. Loving God and loving people. Loving God BY loving people. It's not about "me" it's about US!