In with a twist

So... Sometimes I really don't like God's sense of humor. The roomies and I went to my church today. I was still not in a great mood, and I didn't *really* want to be at church that morning.

Wouldn't you know that the sermon was just precisely and exactly what I needed to hear? It was all about disciplining your mind, and filtering things out of it, and training it to what was good and right. You know that verse in Phillipians?

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.

Yeah... That one... Isn't it a lot nicer to dwell on those things than it is to wallow in the abject self pity I'd been indulging in for the past few days?

As if that wasn't bad enough, after the church service, we went to sunday school. That was where the twisting part came in.

One of the college guys gave his testimony today, and he did a really good job. There were lots of things that he said that were good, but the one that stuck with me is kinda one that I've been mulling over through the new perspective on the book of Job, but it really hit me this morning.

God's goal is to be glorified. He is perfect, and so can exist for His own glory without being selfish. It's not about me. It never has been, never will be. It is all about Him. My sole purpose is to glorify God. It doesn't matter what my mood is. This is why I'm supposed to train my mind, and dwell on the good, lovely, pure, true and excellent things. Because it isn't about me, or about what I'm feeling. It is about the glory of God.

To quote Tim, "John Piper ruined my life..."