gimme, gimme…i need, i need!

One of my favorite movies is What About Bob, starring Bill Murray.  My two best buds and I watched it quite frequently in college and every time, we’d end up rolling in the floor with laugther.  Bob was a needy guy and when I started to write today, I couldn’t help but remember one of his lines from the movie, “Gimme, gimme…I need, I need!”  Ever feel like that? I find myself “needing” a lot of stuff quite often.  I “need” to go to Starbucks.  I “need” that new Macbook.  (I really do.)

But, what do I REALLY need?  In order to live, I need air to breathe.  I need water to drink.  I need a little food for sustenance.  Apart from those basic essentials to human life, there’s not really much more that I MUST have…or need.  

Maybe I just “want” to go to Starbucks.  Of course, I do.  Maybe I just “want” that new Macbook.  You bet I do!  And, I’m sure I’ll get it.  But, all I really NEED is Christ.  He is the source of everything I need.  He’s the source of that air, water and food I need.  Nothing exists that doesn’t come from Him.

We did Charlie Hall’s tune “Center” in church yesterday including a little segue into “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.”  I was reminded that He is all I really need and when I focus on Him, the things of this earth really do grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.