Nolte was on some news show for an interview, for what I am not exactly sure, but he said something that caught my attention. He said, "you know what ego stands for, easing God out, and you don't want to do that."I had never really thought about that, and I don't know if that is really what the person who first used the word ego meant when they originally used it, but it makes sense.
If you think about what happens to someone when they get a big ego they do exactly that. They make it all about themselves and ease God and everyone else out. I think too many times, even in our Christian walk we get a big ego. We may have good intentions but we fall back to our human nature which is sin. This is the reason that Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden and the reason Sodom and Gomorrah occurred.
When we take God out of the picture and make ourselves the most important thing then we are taking the place of God. This may not be our intent and many time this happens without us even realizing it until we have already done it, but we have done it none the less. Jesus knew some people like this in the New Testament, they were called Pharisees and His harshest words were reserved just for them. These people were the ones who were self righteous, meaning that they did everything for their own glory and not God's glory.
I know for a fact that I don't have enough fingers and toes to count how many times I have done this. I say so much and give so much lip service to the fact that I want to live for God, but it sometimes seems like lip service is all I am doing. I don't know what exactly I need to be doing to do a better job at living for Him.Well, actually I do, I need to get in the word more and it will probably become a lot clearer. That right there is one example of how self righteous I am, I have all this time in my days and don't take any of it to get into the word. I, nor anyone else can expect to love God any more than the extent that we are in His word. This truth was taught to me several years ago, but as you can tell I tend to do exactly what Satan wants me to do and put it to the back of my mind and forget it until later. I don't know about anyone else but I am tired of Jesus, or at least His word's being on the back burner of my life. I am more apt to pick up a good Christian non fiction book than my Bible. As good as those books may be they really don't even compare to the Word of God, or they shouldn't. However, so many times I find whatever some human author has to say so much more that what God has to say. That is not to say that God can't use those books to speak because He does but ultimately He has given us sixty six books that tell us exactly what He wants us to know and so many times we don't even bother to pick up our Bible's much less open them up.
What a shame!
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