It's Not about Me... Are you sure?

Here's a bit from Max Lucado in It's Not About Me on the 3rd Commandment. What? you don't remember it? It's the one that says "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in Vain" Did you grow up knowing that it meant you shouldn't swear or use foul language by saying the name of God as an expletive? I did. But Lucado challenges us to look at it differently. Look at it In a way that should make us as Christians squirm. He says "Don't think language, think lifestyle. He tells a story about a daughter of an executive who takes advantage of her position. Putting her father's employees in uncomfortable and compromising positions, making them and her father look bad, and making everyone miserable by use of her position. The boss's child dishonoring the father not with vulgar language but with insensitive living. On the other hand think about it in the opposite light. Reverse the whole process and have the daughter living in a way that in every sense makes people not only think highly of her but of her father as well. She lives in a way that reflects her father's heart." Lucado encourages us in every way to make our lives show our father's heart and intentions in the best of ways. A keeping of that 3rd commandment. This fits right in with all that I've been reading in my Blue like Jazz adventure. To escape the clutches of self centered thinking and to think of someone else more highly than myself and in that way let my lifestyle be a pure sweet language for the King! (thanks Lynn)