Are you self-important?

A friend of mine from Mexico told me a saying that I like a lot. If someone is acting self-important, full of themself, thinking they're all that, you say to them "Do you want me to go kill a chicken for you?" As if to say, "Do you really think you're so important? Shall we have a feast in your honor?"

We tend to make ourselves, our problems, our issues the big deal. My dad says "The definition of 'minor surgery' is 'surgery somebody else is having.'" One of the points of our new sermon series is this: God is the big deal. His will is the one that matters. Things that are big on his radar screen are the things we ought to care about and orient our lives around.

Let's let Jesus Christ become greater, and ourselves become less (John 3.30). In the words of Psalm 34.3, "Come, let us tell of the LORD’s greatness (or let us magnify the LORD); let us exalt his name together."