It's Not About You or Me...

If we want an increase of God & His Christ, there must be a decrease of self. -The Brotha & ODB (Our Daily Bread)

The duty of a true believer is to know the difference between God's interests and one's own personal (self) interests so that we do not confuse the task(s) that The Creator has charged us with.  Moreover so that we do not block or hinder our blessings and be of no use to God as witnesses of His love, glory, and omnipresence to mankind.  The believer has to get to a place along the journey where he/she becomes totally selfless.  As the great contemporary public intellectual Cornel West suggests "You cannot serve the people unless you love the people."  Thus denoting we must all become servant leaders.  God puts us in certain circumstances by His will and we must act accordingly.  Acting accordingly means that it is all about Him and not us, if we approach it in the opposite, we are hindering the Spirit of God from doing the work through us in the most effective and proper manner. 

"An attitude of humility should also characterize us.  Rather than desiring attention for ourselves, everything we do should bring glory to our God."  “He must increase, but I must decrease.”  It is all about God as suggested above when we realize that "He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used His Son for the purpose of our salvation."  We have to be good stewards over our respective purpose(s) that The Creator has given us.  "If you seek great things for yourself, thinking, 'God has called me for this and for that, you barricade God from using you.'  As long as you maintain your own personal interests and ambitions, you cannot be completely aligned or identified with God’s interests..." -(Paraphrased from Our Daily Bread 11/10/11 & My Utmost for His Highest 11/10/11)

God uses us from His great personal perspective and we must be spiritually open and aware to willingly trust Him and Him alone.  Christ gave us a great example of this when he took to the desert for 40 days and 40 nights.  Jesus relied not on his own admission but on the omnipotent admission of The Father by totally trusting Him and by being in accord with Him as his guide and aide when devil tried to tempt him.  As Jesus so profoundly put it "One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God."  "The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve." (Duet 10:20)

Our duty is to follow and abide by the same source that Jesus so aptly did.  When we continuously allow God to do His work within us through His Holy Spirit then and only then are we truly being the dutiful servants that we should be.  We are then able to be the representatives on earth that are needed for the time.  We resist the various temptations and moral repugnance that permeate the current climate.  We thus put on the whole armor of God and stand against the wiles of Satan.   -Peace (Shalom or Salaam alaikum) Be with You, or Unto to You

Not I but The Creator (God) using us as His servants be honored, loved, exalted;
Not I but The Creator be seen, be known, be heard and be obeyed;
Not I but The Creator in every interaction or endeavor;
Not I but The Creator in every thought, word, and deed. —The Brotha