The Point: Beyond Yourself

Our culture values and promotes a healthy sense of "self." We are told to know ourselves and love ourselves, to have a healthy self-esteem, full of self-confidence and self-worth. We are told that we are to take care of ourselves, treat ourselves, and even to pamper ourselves because we owe it to ourselves. We are encouraged to be self-starters and self-motivated, with the hope of being self-employed. We honour people like that, calling them self-made and self-reliant. But what if a life with God isn't a life focused on the self? What if, instead, to live a life genuinely focused on God requires us to live a life genuinely focused beyond ourselves?