Look Up to God, Not Inward at Yourself

You ever slowed down enough to take a look at how self obsessed our culture has become today? Man, I have. Everywhere you turn it’s another “be the better you” or whatever. We hardly notice anymore how self-obsessed we’re encouraged to be, how self-absorbed we really are. We’re so bent on improving ourselves and how that looks on social media that it breeds narcissism. So, I’ve been diving into this notion and came across this by C.S. Lewis who writes, ‘I had not noticed how the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, minds, praised most, while the cranks, misfits and malcontents praised least... I had not noticed either that just as men spontaneously praise whatever they value, so they spontaneously urge us to join them in praising it: “Isn’t she lovely? Wasn’t it glorious? Don’t you think that magnificent?” The Psalmists, in telling everyone to praise God, are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.’ Exactly!So let’s look up to God and shout out to others about the amazing gifts He has blessed us with. “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.”Psalm 19:1-2 Be Nice, Grace Wins