It's All About ME!

I live in the "you"niverse. It's all about "me." I have an "I"pod, I get "my" music from "I"tunes. I talk on "my" "I"phone. I even play video games on "my" Wii - that's "we" spelled with two "i's".... I read "self" help books, like The Secret, that tell "me" how great "I" am, how powerful "I" am, and how in-control "I" am. They're "me" centered, so I'm never disappointed. Even though the "you"niverse is all about "me," I'm still a "truth-is-relative" kind of "me," so all of this can be true for "you" too. Just embrace the "me" centered culture "we" - uh, I mean, "I" - live in. It's not hard to do. Just watch a lot of TV. There are enough commercials that are "me" focused to subliminally encode "your" thinking to be about "me." Have a great day! Is it in you? Obey your thirst. Just do it!

This is a paraphrase from a lesson I heard the other day (a teacher/preacher from Washington)... It's the truth. No wonder people think the Bible is irrelevant. They're bombarded with Oprah-ology all week, and if they happen to make it to church - a Bible teaching church is less likely - that's only 1 hour out of 168 throughout the week. Nevertheless, the truth stands firm.

Romans 1:18-32 says, "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them."

Romans 12:1-3 says, "Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual, or reasonable, act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you."