The ME Generation

I read the following in 'Our Daily Bread' recently: IT'S ALL ABOUT ME! This message is declared by so many men and women today that it could be the motto of our modern world - a challenging world that is destructively self-centered. The question we must ask is: Is it really all about me?

Obviously understanding that no one is perfect and probably would not make 100 per cent if tested on the following attributes: To be helpful, courteous, kind, constructive, sincere; or to serve, give, have faith and listen to advise. We could test ourselves and see what kind of mark we would score if we took a personal inventory, or we could listen to our friends for they will tell us what they really think, and this way we would learn to know ourselfs better.

We should be open-minded enough to talk difference over with our family and friends. This will shift the conversation from all about me as an individual to all about us. This will enable the important decisions to be made jointly and not solely by me. A selfish person will have a hard time finding happiness.

However, there are other enemies of character as bad as or worse than being self-centered. Equally as costly is doubting our faith , which is deficiency of faith; superstition, which is misdirection of faith; hypocrisy, which is insincerity of faith, irreverence, which is contempt of faith, and perhaps worst of all, indifference, which is neglect of faith.

For the followers of Christ however, the answer is clear - it is not all about ME - it's all about Jesus Christ and others. The power is not in us but through us. That power comes from the "one God and Father of all, who above all, and through all, and in all." Eph. 4:6