If I am trying to impress you it means I need your approval because I feel empty and insignificant.  I have to draw from people what I should be getting from my Father God.  It is about me though I really don’t want it to be. I want to express God but I am empty and I need to reassured that I am important and valued.

I think of the line from the movie, “Beaches” when Bett Midler’s character says, “enough of me talking about me, now you talk about me.”  Unfortunately, this only fills you for the moment and like a drug, requires constant hits to maintain a level of security.

If I am renewed in my mind I am aware the best thing about me is Christ who is in me.  When I am feeling weak He is strong.  My goal is to let Him be strong in me and through me. I want my conversations to be an expression of Him not an impression of me.

I have to daily connect with God so that my thinking is in agreement with His truth, I am loved, valued, significant and approved because of nothing I have done or can do.  It is all in what Jesus has done for me.

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  Gal. 2:20