Good stuff from Paul

Obsession with self is a dead end. Attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells, even though you still experience all the limitations of sin - you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reasosn, doesn't it, that if the alive and present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves in your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus - bring you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you, and he does as he did in Jesus, you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body wil be as alive as Christ's.

So, don't you see that we don't owe this old do it yourself life one red cent. There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life.

God's spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go.