Selflessness Meaning: Why “You’re Not the Center” Is Incomplete

• February 28, 2013
• Jesandy

Lately, I keep seeing the idea of or in context selflessness everywhere:

“You’re not the center of the universe”
Or “People aren’t thinking about you”

Some of part seems true, because lot of us do live like everything revolves around us. Our feelings, our profile & persona, our story. To be honest, it feels right; like it’s exposing something hidden

But If you understand closely, and then you will realize, something is not 100% true. Not because it’s wrong, but because it is  not complete.

And the truth about incomplete is dangerous.

Selflessness Meaning in the Bible is Different: Understand Completely

Most ideas of selflessness try to fix a symptom. Overthinking, insecurity, pride. So the solution becomes: “Stop thinking about yourself so much.”

It sounds right. It even works… for a while.

But here’s the problem.

That whole idea is still centered on you. It’s still about you, just in a different form, Or more socially acceptable version of self-focus.

The Bible doesn’t just tell you to think less about yourself. It goes deeper than that. It shifts the center completely.

Not self into less self,
But self into God

That’s a different meaning.

When the Bible talks about selflessness, it is not trying to make you feel less important. Instead it is trying to show you that you were never meant to be the reference point in the first place.

In Philippians 2:3, it says, “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.” In Matthew 16:24, Jesus doesn’t say “improve yourself,” He says, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” And in Romans 12:3: “not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think.”

That’s not self-improvement, it’s about changing who is at the center. God or You?

Because biblical selflessness isn’t about changing how you think about yourself.

It’s about changing who is at the center

So Why “You’re Not the Center” Is Not Enough

This is where most people get it wrong. It stops at: “You’re not the center.” That’s it..

If we by ourselves remove ours at the center, so who will be at the center, then who takes that place? Empty? Or No One, Or something else?

And that will be a big problem..

Imagine driving a car alone. Usually we are the one behind the steering wheel in control, we are at the center. Suddenly, we leave the driver’s seat and move to the back. At first, the car is still moving, at least still going straight. But then, a turn comes, or a cliff, or something blocking the road, danger ahead..

Because when something was moved… but nothing replaced it. The center is empty.

And an empty center leaves you without direction.

And The Bible have the answer (and it always does), and it is beautiful, here me out:

It doesn’t just tell you that you’re not the center.
It shows you who should be there at the first place

God.

And that changes everything.

Because now selflessness is no longer just removing yourself. It’s placing God at the center, let Him drive.

You are still at the car right, you are important, but let Him lead us.

Those are totally difference compare to what the world teach us

Biblical selflessness meaning is another level. It leads you somewhere deeper.

Not into pressure, but into relationship..

And that doesn’t happen by force. Holy Spirit will help you grow as you stay close to Him. As you reflect on His Word and begin to live the way He intended from the beginning.

And remember this: you are always Important to Him..

Jesus showed to us and talked about these before, through Holy Spirit we can talk to Him, ask Him, stay close, or even sit right beside Him as He leads. It’s more like a child learning to drive with his father.

Know Him, Walk with Him, Live wit Him, like a branch staying connected to the vine