All about Him, Not about You

Ever feel like modern day Christianity is all about you? What you should be doing, could be doing, what your life should look like, be like, feel like. Always being told what you need to do, and how God needs to be Your #1. Most importantly, how You need to love God, and love God more.

Yup. I've been there. I've done that, and I survived, thank God! One day I woke up to the realization, its not about me. It's not about what I can do, or what I can't do. It's not about me loving Him more, or Me doing things for Him, or Me doing anything at all. Except laying down my need to always be doing something, my need to be in control, my need to "get my life together now" or "shape up". Its not about me doing anything. Its about Him, doing everything in me and through me.

When I say Him doing things through me to, I'm not saying to just go do good deeds, and that's Him working through you (Though that does happen!), but usually you will do things on your own, out of the calling that He has put in your heart. Life then is run off of your Spirit, and not off your mind. You will no longer feel like you don't measure up, or feel like you aren't doing Gods will for your life if you pass up that opportunity to go out ministering this weekend. It's not about you. It's about Him.

God is more than capable of taking care of His people, and the audacity that we have to assume that God needs us to complete His will. Admittedly, God uses people in this world, but whether or not you are Used by God has nothing to do with your level of spirituality, or how close of a relationship with Him that you have. God uses some people in certain ways, others in other ways. So long as you are following the calling in your heart, you are doing exactly what God wants you to do.

Even as I use the word "doing" I am reminded how much Christian society revolves around how much we "Do" as Christians, and how frustrated I get when I'm judged because my lack of doing. There is a time and place for everything, and making people do something that their heart really isn't in, is counter productive. The same thing is true when people have problems or issues that they haven't been able to overcome yet. We label them, and call them out....I really don't know when that has done a lot of good. You have to Love people through their problems and issues. I do think that there is a time when God will tell you to let someone Go, and you have to do that, but you as a believer will know when those moments arrive for yourself.

But everything that you end up doing, is God doing it through you, not you doing it. Not by your Will, Or your Might, or your Parents Might for you.......Its Not about You doing ANYTHING EVER.....Its about Him. Him doing things IN you. Not you Doing things for Him. Its about how much He Loves You, not how much You love Him. Its about How He Heals and Makes You Whole, not about How you followed these 12 biblical steps and are now free.

There is a difference, if only a small one sometimes, between Religion and Spiritual Freedom. Religion has law, and the law is about Me. Freedom has Love, and Love is about Him.