If I…

Do you ever feel like it is all about you? I don’t know your situation or what it looks like but there have been times in my life where I have felt that it was all about me. My plan, my vision, my hopes, my dreams and yes even my will. Really? How stupid do I have to be to really actually believe that? Well as time has gone by I’ve realized…really stupid. I don’t know how it happened, not sure when it happened and it pains me to admit that it did happen, but at some point in my life, I actually began to think that God needed me to complete his vision and mission and plan and without me there was no possible way that it would be accomplished. I know your laughing and thinking who would ever think that? Me. For years in my life I allowed my pride to build up and think that I was more than what I really was and only till that was stripped away did I realize that the show goes on with or without me.

If I don’t attend this meeting. If I don’t speak this weekend. If I don’t do this wedding. If I don’t lead this team. If I don’t counsel this couple. If I don’t have this dinner. If I don’t answer this text. If I don’t write this blog. If I don’t attend sporting event. If I don’t volunteer for that ______________. If I don’t return that email. If I don’t miss every event. The words “IF I” dominated my thinking…not “IF GOD”…but “IF I”.

I have been learning that God can and will go on with or without me…but I also learned that I can not go on with out Him…and that has making all the difference in the world to me and my family.

What is your “IF I” statement that you can put in the place of mine?  Maybe yours are the same.  Reality is there comes a point when we realize that it is not all about us.  My advice is to learn that sooner than later.