All of Jesus and none of Me
10/20/2019
John 3:25-36, John the Baptist is giving one of if not his last speech to the people before his imprisonment. During his speech he used a sentence that we must all take to heart. Moreover, If we forget these words, we run the risk of losing our salvation.
30 He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30 (KJV)
When we are born we have a human outlook on life, a self-centered human outlook; me, my wants, my needs and my desires. To put it in terms I have heard many times, “what is in it for me.” Where it is strongest is where you strive for more. In the financial sense it is called being “money hungry.” In the area of self-esteem it could be called being a “glory seeker.”
We need to take that “human outlook” and turn it into a “Heaven outlook” where we place our wants, needs and desires into what does God want me to do.
This reminds me of the song by Theodore Monod:
None of Self and All of Thee.
Oh, the bitter pain and sorrow that a time could ever be, when I proudly said to Jesus, “All of self, and none of Thee.”
All of self, and none of Thee,
All of self, and none of Thee,
When I proudly said to Jesus,
“All of self, and none of Thee.”
Yet He found me; I beheld Him bleeding on th’ accursed tree, and my wistful heart said faintly, “Some of self, and some of Thee.”
Some of self, and some of Thee,
Some of self, and some of Thee,
And my wistful heart said faintly,
“Some of self, and some of Thee.”
Day by day His tender mercy, healing, helping, full and free, brought me lower while I whispered, “Less of self, and more of Thee.”
Less of self, and more of Thee,
Less of self, and more or Thee,
Brought me lower while I whispered,
“Less of self, and more of Thee.”
Higher than the highest heaven, deeper than the deepest sea, Lord, Thy love at last has conquered: “None of self, and all of Thee.”
None of self, and all of Thee,
None of self, and all of Thee,
Lord, Thy love at last has conquered:
“None of self, and all of Thee.”