Me, Myself and I. Who Get’s the Glory?

The worst conversation you can have with someone is when that person constantly refers to themselves, their experiences and their opinion. It’s a one-uppance that just can’t be overcome. Whatever place you’ve been, they went to a better one. Whatever tragedy you encountered, they had a worse one. Whatever beauty you saw, they found a nicer one. It’s exhausting.

In this world of personal experience, it seems that everyone needs to validate themselves. We see it splayed on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. We have likes and hits and tweets that all circle around the god of “me.” That’s why so many people are acting out. How many sentences begin with the words, “I think” or “In my opinion?”

A recent study of poets divided them into two groups — those who died of natural causes and those who died by their own hands. A computer took the latter poems of each of these groups and analysed their word usage. The report showed that those who died of suicide were preoccupied with the first person. People who are struggling with life — with their jobs or relationships or finances — tend to use the personal pronoun as well. Their world can be encompassing and gripping. No one else exists.

“Me, Myself and I, let me tell you about it all”
In this me generation, there is a great rush toward individual liberty and rights. Rarely do we step aside so another can prosper. Rarer yet do we lay our lives down for another.

But what if our focus was less on ourselves. It was said of Eleanor Roosevelt that she could engage in an entire conversation and never once use the word I or “me.”

It comes down to living a life that glorifies God. That’s it. He isn’t in the business of making us feel good about ourselves. That’s not our purpose in this life.


For my Glory, or for His?
Think about it. How marriages could be saved if each partner lived a marriage that wasn’t all about making them happy. Instead, they would have a marriage that would give Glory to God.

Instead of working hard on projects so the boss will give a Twinkie at the end of the year and a star on your chart, you did it to give Glory to God.

Instead of writing so you have a platform, or an audience, or so publishers notice you, you would just wrote so God could be glorified.

Once we begin to think about reflecting His Glory, we begin to make the right decisions, living a right life

What a world this would be. Selfish living would be turned into selfless living.And then it would all come back, one hundred fold. Only this time, pure, sweet and holy.