What Are You All About?

Our lives are all about more. Our schedules are jam-packed, we are all about producing, and we are for the most part over-loaded. Seems to me that if there is a moment in our calendars that is not filled, there is something missing. Every moment is useful for doing something, or producing something, right? Why is this?

I believe that because as a culture, we have acquiesced that more is better, and we have set ourselves up that by default, doing more is the way to get this more that we need to have, or at least look busy enough so as to seem like you have this more. Having more is not always better though. No one wants more bad stuff or bad things to happen. But too much of anything isn't always good either...so what to do? Where does one find the balance in this dilemma? Jesus.

"But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:9, 10 ESV

More is an unnecessary pursuit if one considers that what one already has is enough. Unfortunately, unless we are talking about Jesus, nothing is ever enough. Whatever we want or think we need to have will eventually run out, and then what? We will want more. When the more we want is finite (and everything this side of heaven is finite), then whatever it is it will run out or get old, and we will want more.

We need to therefore change what we are all about, that is if it is anything besides Jesus. We have to get past wanting what the world has to offer, again because if and when we get it, we will just want more of it - and this makes us all about the world. Jesus wants us to be all about Him, and the only way to do this is to be all about our weaknesses. Thats right, just like Paul was saying in this passage, we need to make room for our weaknesses: look for them, acknowledge them, and even embrace them! That's right, then, and only then, will there be room for His strength to compensate...and then that makes us all about Him!

In His grip,

Pastor Pat