Post 500: It’s Not about Me, Is It?
Posted in Once I Was a Kansas Girl and tagged with Blogness, Celebration, Christianity, Holidays, Jesus Christ on December 25, 2008I know the chances of someone reading this today are slim, but I had to post today. No, I’m not taking away time from my family to do this. Really, blogging isn’t a big deal compared to God and family, is it?
That’s exactly the theme of this post, my 500th post. Yes, my 500th post falls exactly on Christmas. When I first realized it would fall on this day back in November, I tried to figure out whether or not I’d want my 500th post to fall before or after Christmas. Did I need to squeeze in some extra posts? Did I need to hold up on some of those busy, busy days and not post at all?
Then I realized something: the only reason why I wanted my 500th post to fall on a different day was because I wanted it to be all about me. I wanted your praise, congratulations, and exclamations.
Once I realized my less-than-pure motives, I knew what I had to do. I had to post exactly as I could plan so that my 500th post would fall on Christmas. This way, I could not make it about me, but could make it about Him, the One whose birth we celebrate.
Christmas isn’t about how many presents I can get or how many peanut clusters and olives I can stuff in my mouth. It’s not particularly about family, though they are important. It’s about Christ. It’s about the God who took on human flesh to walk among us. He certainly didn’t do this because He thought it was fun; He did it because it was the only way to save us from our sins.
God became man, lived a perfect life, took on our sin, and died for you and I that we may be raised from the dead with Him. That’s what today’s about.
Merry Christmas!
December 30th, 2008 at 10:48 am
You have no idea how proud I am of you for doing the right thing! I’m sure it was hard since as humans we crave the attention and praise of others. But you really did do the right thing!