awakening me

...you are nothing, and God is everything; and for our nothing, God sacrificed everything, so that we may have everything."

- an excerpt from "I Would Die For You", B.J. Higgins.

There is so much more in this world than me. 

   
There is so much outside of me.

There is love and pain and death and darkness and life and joy.

There is hope and freedom and despair and captivity.

There is poverty and injustice.

There is shame and power.

But sometimes I fall into a haze of me.

God is everything. I am nothing. 

"...one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all."

- Ephesians 4:6 

There is nothing outside of God. He sees all. There is nothing beyond His sight, for darkness is as light to Him. But sometimes all I seem to see nothing but myself. I only look two feet in front of me. I am blessed in so many countless ways. So why do I cry out to God to fix the comparatively minute discomforts that I feel burdened with?

"What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?"

- Romans 7:24

And so I ask. Who am I? 

"Who am I that the Lord of all the earth,
Would care to know my name, would care to feel my hurt?"

"Who Am I", Casting Crowns

 

 And, "What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?"

- Psalm 8:4