Who is the Point of it All?

The other day in the truck Frank was playing Country music.  Toby Keith's "I wanna talk about me!" came on and my dad started laughing.  He'd never heard that song.  If you haven't heard it either, here is the chorus from the song:

 

I wanna talk about me
Wanna talk about I
Wanna talk about number one
Oh my me my
What I think, what I like, what I know, what I want, what I see
I like talking about you, you, you, you

usually, but occassionally
I wanna talk about me
I wanna talk about me

Where am I going with this?

 

If our focus is supposed to be on Jesus - why do we waste our time focusing on anything else?  Especially ourselves!  So many of us want to talk about "me."  We want to talk about our feelings and our disappointments.  We want to focus on what we did well and what we didn't do so well.

 

Read on to see what Paul had to say about this kind of behavior: it is pointless.

 

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What We Need Posted: 23 Jun 2009 12:58 PM PDT "My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." (Colossians 2:2-3) Why does Paul struggle for these people he has not met? What do they need so desperately? That's what we'll be discovering for the next several days -- the urgent answer Paul felt compelled to risk his life to make known to them (and to us). The first two items on our needs list are courageous hearts and love-saturated unity with other believers. If our hearts are cowardly, if we are many things instead of one thing together in Christ, then we are missing out. We are missing what it means to belong to God, to be in Christ, to be fully Christian. Paul knows we should be loaded, rich, wealthy, fully funded in our understanding of Jesus. If we don't really know Jesus, we are broke. We are missing the point. We may be believing that He is a piece of our puzzle instead of the picture on the box. He is the final answer. He is the point. All the facts and what to do with them are waiting to be found in Jesus. Think: Would you say that your heart is courageous in Christ? Would you say you have experienced unity with other Christians? Would you say that you are hoping Jesus will solve your problems or that you are hoping to know more of Jesus? Pray: Ask God to help you to be encouraged in heart and united in love. Ask Him to help you to have the full riches of complete understanding to know Christ, the mystery of God. Thank Him that by faith and through His grace you do know Christ. Do: Read and think about Colossians 1:15-20 to know Jesus better. Visit PlanetWisdom.com for more great resources!