Me first, my desires, my wants, my needs real or perceived -- it’s time that I think of myself first and foremost. Well that is surely the thinking of many people but it is arrogant and personally damaging to their life. Life is not all about us according to the Scriptures. This is not to minimize in any way the importance of an individual and the need to respect and care for the life that God gives. That is a part of responsibility and gratitude to God for the marvelous gift of human life. However, preoccupation with self, self justification, self indulgence and absorption with self, have negative consequences personally and in our relationships with others. The Bible gives us the proper balance or perspective through the Apostle Paul as he tells the Christians in Philippi --
… “do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.”(Phil 2:4 NASB)
As we respond to the leadership of the Holy Spirit, we will be able to fulfill this command as well as our Lord’s command given to us through the Apostle John when he said –
… “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.”(1 John 4:11 KJV)
Then, if it is not all about us, who is it all about? Again we must go to the Scriptures for the Divine perspective in life that leads to contentment and happiness. Paul in writing to the Ephesians tells us of the tremendous spiritual wealth that we have in Christ. The believer in Christ has all spiritual blessings for time and eternity. Three times in the opening chapter to the Ephesians he writes that the spiritual blessing that are ours are given to the praise of the glory of His grace --
… “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fulness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation — having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.”(Eph 3 – 14 NASB)
Therefore we should be able to draw a conclusion from this passage. It is not all about us, but about Him. He is the One who is accomplishing a work in our lives to the praise of His glory and grace. We can rest in Him and be sensitive to the opportunities that He gives for us to share His Person and His Word with those He has brought into our lives.