population ?

 

Then Jesus said, "When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters, or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. "

Luke 14:12-14



 

How many times do I daily live in my own little world! I wake up and go about my day as if it is all about me.

 

 I get in the car and drive to where I need to be (even church) and have blinders on...not noticing everything else out there. Not noticing the other stuff that really matters! Well, I probably do this more than I even realize!!

 

In the above video by Matthew West I came to realize that so many times we (me) live in a world of just population ME! A world that is safe, secure, and just big enough for all the things that I need to do in the course of a (overly busy) day.

 My eyes are set on what "I" need to do, when it should rather be set on what "He" wants me to do.

 

I don't know what's best for me. I really don't.

 

How many times I forget that I am a character in someone else's story. Whether I know it or not!!

It may be that homeless man I see walking the cold street every time we are on our way to church.

It also may be that person in the checkout lane that only has one item, but I am in such a hurry that I don't let her go in front of me!

Maybe the child that is standing alone after soccer practice, in the cold, waiting for a parent to pick them up.

 

We never know what "story" the other people in our lives are living. Some of them just have a prettier "cover" than others, and we assume they are just fine, when really they are hurting.

 

Well I have realized it is now time to take those blinders off and scan around me to see the bigger picture... the grander plan.

 

It's NOT all about ME!

 

 

 

Omnia mea tua sunt (All that is mine is yours)