WHAT ABOUT ME?

Joshua 24:15 NLT … then choose today whom you will serve…. But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.”

I saw this kitten looking a bit forlorn and felt like it was saying “What about me!” 

Today’s society encourages us to say the same thing about ourselves. It too says, “What about me?” It’s all about me, myself and I! 

We used to have a lovely young neighbour who suddenly decided she didn’t want to be a wife and mother to her husband and two young children anymore. She wanted a different life and chose to leave them all behind.

We probably all have times when we’d like to do something else or be somewhere else, but as God’s children we’re not part of this world, we are part of God’s kingdom which is run on very different principles.

Luke 9:23 NLT Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me. We know it’s not always an easy path to follow because our ‘flesh’ wants to do its own thing and we like our comfort zone. We very often want to do what we want to do, but the trouble is, it may not be what God wants us to do!😊

Even Jesus had to deny Himself in the Garden of Gethsemane in order to go to the Cross. He said, “Not my will, but Yours Father”. He loved His Father so much He wanted to do what pleased Him more than He wanted to please Himself and that’s the challenge He gives to all of us, every day of our lives. Joshua said “Choose you this day, whom you will serve, but as for me, I will serve the Lord.”

God wants us to understand more and more how much He really loves us and how much it cost Him to see His own Son made sin for our sake, so we can respond with love and want to please Him and live for Him each day.😊

Father help us realise how much You have done for us and not take it lightly. May we have hearts that are so grateful that we want to please You more than ourselves. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Photo by Ahsaan Ahmed on Unsplash