8/14/08
Selfish Jamie Rowe
(Romans 8:5-8 The Message Version)
Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.
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I want to pay more attention to God than I do self.
Sad to say I haven't been doing that lately. I'll even say I put myself before God AND others. But I can change that. Right now.
Be encouraged, I am!
jamie
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Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.
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I want to pay more attention to God than I do self.
Sad to say I haven't been doing that lately. I'll even say I put myself before God AND others. But I can change that. Right now.
Be encouraged, I am!
jamie
....
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¶ 8/14/2008
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