Be His

"You will never be happy until you learn to become more of yourself. All that 'God,' 'the creator of the universe,' or 'whatever' wants from you is for you to become more of yourself.” — Oprah Winfrey

Wrong again. Let me just say for the record that I am highly un-impressed with Oprah. She does some decent things, but so does most everyone else. The only difference is the amount of the charity check.

She really missed it on this one though. God never asks us to "become more of yourself." He says we'd be lucky if we could lose ourselves. We'd be lucky if we were more interested in our neighbors, in the names of the trees between our house and our church, and in affecting social justice in whatever ways we could instead of being stuck on ourselves.

God tells us we're eternally winners and we don't need to prove it. Jesus tells us to not worry about ourselves and about what we want to get, but to be more focused on others. Paul tells us to consider everyone else more than we consider our own comfort, to see them as better than we see ourselves, and to give from the perspective of having gained the world instead of "what we still want to buy."

All God, the creator of the universe, wants from us is to be His.