This past summer, my friends and I decided to take a little trip. We took a trip to Chicago. Many memories were made in Chicago...some good and some bad, but memories none the less. Along with the memories, many new phrases were added to our "phrase bank". Some of the phrases were: "mojo goes Midwest", "Target miracle", "Are you sick?", "Here is what I'm saying, I have nothing to say", and "Bringing it back to me...". The last phrase, "bringing it back to me" is one that has been popping up in my brain a lot lately. And every time it does, I think "I need to write about that". I have wrestled with what to write and have finally determined what I want to say (I think), so here it goes...
We are all born with a selfish desire. We all have the desire to make things about us, to be selfish. Some of us out grow this, some of us never quite do. This brings up the question, when do we out grow this? I think that as a Christian, when you make the decision to follow Christ, that selfish desire is one that starts to fade, or at least it should. We start to realize that there is a bigger picture and that there is so much more that is so much bigger than us! And then we get comfortable. We want to focus on the bigger picture, but our comfort level leads us to say "bringing it back to me". We start doing things because it will benefit us or because we know that if we do something else it might push us to a place that we don't want to go. There is a point in which we have to step back and ask ourselves, "why am I doing this?" Am I saying that you shouldn't take time for you, not at all! I am saying that once every decision is based on if it benefits us personally or not, we have lost focus and need to reevaluate some things in our lives. We are not the ones that need to be saying "bringing it back to me..." but we should be listening to God say "bringing it back to me..." because if we are doing things for the right reasons, they will be bringing it all back to Him!
