Self-obsession

We live in a society that is obsessed with self. Every day we have access to an abundance of opportunities for self-improvement, self-fulfillment, self-gratification, self-love. The problem is that all this focus on self removes our focus from where it should be. We readily believe society that we need "me-time," but we neglect the more important God-time. Our self-centeredness means we are not God-centered, and because of this, the more we strive to better ourselves, the worse we may actually become. If we dig deep enough in our self-examination, we will find that it's the focus on self that causes most of our problems--our entitlement, our arrogance, our anger, our jealousy, our fighting, our gossip and unedifying words. If we focused on God a little more and ourselves a little less, we would find that our lives reflect Him more than our sinful natures. If we focused on God more than ourselves, we would find that we are more improved, fulfilled, satisfied, and loved than we ever were when our focus was on us. This isn't to say that there is no benefit to self-examination if we use the process to turn our focus back to God. But there is more harm than benefit when our self-examination becomes self-obesession. As Christians, we need to break free of society's self-focus and start focusing on God instead. This is the only way we will be able to walk in victory and to lead others to victory as well.