It is NOT About You

My daughter turned to me and said, “Dad, it’s not about you.”

Her meaning at the time was completely obvious. She reminded me that what my wife was saying was really not about me at all. It was the product of the inability of Joy’s brain to function and make appropriate decisions about what is nice to say.

But in that simple statement, “Dad, it’s not about you.” my daughter also conveyed to me a revelation from God. That revelation has been changing my life in all the subsequent weeks and months.

Father God keeps echoing the statement, “Stuart, it’s not about you.” Like most people, I have often looked at the circumstances of my life and felt that I was somehow being hurt by the way God permitted the events to unfold around me. But God keeps trying to get me to understand, “Stuart, it is not about you.”

When you hear people saying hurtful things to you, more often than not it is not about you. It is about their own wounds. When the tire on the car or bicycle goes flat, it is not an attack on you. It is a loving God protecting you. When the sunny day turns rainy, it is not about you.

It will help us all if we find a less self-centric world view.

His, thus Yours,

Stuart