SeanDietrich.com

ME MYSELF AND I
By Sean Dietrich

Got dreams? Ambitions? Have any short term, or maybe long term goals? Big plans and ideas that you’d love to accomplish some day? Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years? Maybe you see yourself in a hammock underneath the shade? All these things, I have spent my life chasing. Subconsciously, beneath my own recognizable motives, my desires for comfort and self-preservation live.

Humans will break their backs, working hard to accomplish the things that will secure their comfort. I’ve known too many people who work terribly hard at their job, and the only justification they offer is: “It’s pays good money.”

AN INSTINCT THAT STINKS

Self-preservation, our inherited human instinct that goes against everything God wants like a piece of sandpaper. For me, my own desire for self-preservation has shown up in many things I’ve done. What job I choose, what clothes I wear, what food I eat. My mind is hard-wired and programmed to focus on keeping me happy. Me, me, me. Where’s the mirror?

Many Christians have come to Jesus for these reasons, reasons of self-preservation. Scared of Hell, they have come to Jesus simply for fire insurance. I did. I actually considered myself smart, because I was securing my eternal comfort. Not just my earthly comforts. Is this any way to live in Jesus? Being continually focused on our own pleasure and self-preservation? Looking forward to our eternal life with him as nothing more than an eternal vacation. Jesus had news for me. Heaven isn’t going all about my pleasure either! Heaven is all about him!

ME MINISTRIES INC.

Jesus said that whoever loses their life for his sake will find it. What does it mean to “lose my life?” For me it meant not getting what I wanted, until I began to finally realize that Jesus wasn’t really concerned with fulfilling my earthly wants at all. His only concern is for me to know him, and know him well. Serving my own wants will not help me do that. He is very interested in helping me come to the place of complete trust in him.

Losing my life in Jesus meant just that. I am still in a process of releasing many things to him. He is gently and kindly starving many of my desires and dreams, until one day they will finally fall over and die. This has already happened with many of my wants, and the end result is so wonderful! I am so excited for the moments when more my desires and dreams will fall away. The more of myself I lose, the more I life I find in him.

I really enjoy getting more of his life.