It's All About ME!
When confronted with problems with the folks you supervise, does it sometimes feel everyone is only thinking of themselves? The "All About Me" syndrome is alive and well. It takes a bigger and better person not to focus on themselves when everything around them is going wrong. As Christians, we like to think we are above that kind of thinking. It is easy to get pulled into it when it feels like you spend all your time solving everyone else's problems; problems they have helped create.
How can you tell if you are being pulled into "All About Me" thinking? If confronted with an issue, do you automatically think of what it means in the way of time you will have to use to solve? Do you grumble when assigned a new task that requires additional effort on top of what you currently do? When there is a conflict between employees, do you count the steps it will take to solve or "walk those babies through another issue"? Instead of focusing on what the situation does to you, focus your energy on how you can influence the outcome by mirroring Jesus. Even Jesus grumbled when he had to teach the disciples over and over but in the end, He always worked toward an outcome that made better people. He never lost site of what He was sent to accomplish. He had supreme compassion for others and knew His duty on earth was to teach others about God and how to have everlasting life with Him.
St. Luke 8:15 - "But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience."
Not only was Jesus sent to earth to accomplish God's plan. You were sent here for His purpose, also. If you keep in mind having an honest and good heart towards others, based upon reading the Word, keeping those commandments, you will bring forth the fruit of why you are in existence. With patience!
How can you tell if you are being pulled into "All About Me" thinking? If confronted with an issue, do you automatically think of what it means in the way of time you will have to use to solve? Do you grumble when assigned a new task that requires additional effort on top of what you currently do? When there is a conflict between employees, do you count the steps it will take to solve or "walk those babies through another issue"? Instead of focusing on what the situation does to you, focus your energy on how you can influence the outcome by mirroring Jesus. Even Jesus grumbled when he had to teach the disciples over and over but in the end, He always worked toward an outcome that made better people. He never lost site of what He was sent to accomplish. He had supreme compassion for others and knew His duty on earth was to teach others about God and how to have everlasting life with Him.
St. Luke 8:15 - "But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience."
Not only was Jesus sent to earth to accomplish God's plan. You were sent here for His purpose, also. If you keep in mind having an honest and good heart towards others, based upon reading the Word, keeping those commandments, you will bring forth the fruit of why you are in existence. With patience!
posted by Diane Gibson at
3:36 PM
