The Climb (part 2)

I was thinking this morning about the climb, who do you think the climb is about? Do you think it is about myself, about me changing me? No the climb is not about me, the journey is not about myself, it is about God. I can't change me, but I can allow God changing me by putting Him first. When I start putting Him first, then I am able to see what my actions of being selfish did to other, by my choices, by the things I say and about making life about myself. When I am able to take me out of it, I see that Jesus is the only way, more of Him and less of me. I start dying to myself, I start dying to the things I want and I start living for something much greater then me.

As I was thinking about writing this, a Bible verse came to mind. James 3:16 "For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice." I believe it is because no longer am I carrying about anyone else, but myself. What will I gain, what will be my benefit. I am going to raise myself up and tear down others, because me, me, me. Selfishness comes in many forms and I think it is easy to get lost and unable to see the truth of my actions.

I want God to keep making me the man He wants me to be, that requires me to die to my selfish desires and not putting myself first before other and before Him. I think today's culture is all about me, when it should be all about Jesus and then others and me last.

Am I the only one that struggles in this area? Remember Matthew 7:1-5 "7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye." And when you think your eye is clear, remember that correcting someone else must be done in a Godly fashion, with love and patients. Do it as God has corrected you, putting God first, loving them not for there sin, but for the person they are. This is done by loving God more then thyself.

J    = Jesus
O  = Others
Y  = Yourself