My Own Little World.

         Our local Christian Radio station has recently starting playing this song called “My Own Little World” By Matthew West, and I heard it for the first time a few months ago, and immediately went home and bought the song from iTunes.

    The first verse goes like this “In My own little world it hardly ever rains. I’ve never gone hungry and I’ve always felt safe. I’ve got some money in my pocket, and shoes on my feet. In my own little world, population, me. I try to stay awake during sunday morning church. I throw a twenty in the plate, but I never give till it hurts. I turn off the news when I don’t like what I see. It’s easy to do when it’s population, me.” It seems like we as Christians get caught up in the motions so often, that we can be going about life not caring at all about what really matters. We get so consumed with ourselves and our own little worlds with a population of only me. We think that if we’ve got shoes on our feet, we’re safe from harm, and we give money to our church every few months when we happen to have some spare cash in our wallets, that we must be doing pretty good. Wrong.

     The chorus of this song is goes like this, “What if there’s a bigger picture? What if I’m missing out? What if there’s a greater purpose that I could be living right now…outside my own little world?” It’s so hard for a lot of Christians to see the big picture. It’s hard to think of others before yourself. Once you’ve gone through life for so long just going through the motions, you really do start to wonder, “what if there’s a bigger picture?” There has to be more to life than just this, I must be missing something. I’ve been there before, I was going through the motions of a typical “Christian”, I went to church on Sunday morning, Went to Sunday School, I sang during worship, I took notes during the sermon, I came back to church on Wednesday night, I took notes during Youth, I sang more worship, I occasionally helped out on service projects or volunteer projects just because I felt like I had to, and one day God just started speaking to me about this subject..I’m just living life in my own little world, not really caring about the people around me, or their needs, and I was just passing through life going through these motions, and that I was missing the big picture. He has the great purpose for all of us, and so many times we don’t know that because we’re too stuck in the routine in our own world.

     The second verse goes like this “Stopped at a red light, looked out my window. I saw a cardboard sign that said ‘help this homeless widow’. Just above that sign was the face of a human, and I thought to myself ‘God, what have I been doin?’. So I rolled my window down and I looked her in the eye, Oh how many times have I just passed her by? Then I gave her some money and I drove on through, in my own little world, population, two.” Once you start to realize that this world isn’t all about pleasing you, and when you ask God to help you see what really matters, he will give you situations like this, where you’ll find out exactly what he means. Just like in this song, he was just sitting at a red light, like any other day, and he just happens to notice this homeless lady on the side of the road. I know I’m guilty of seeing people like that and not paying any attention to them. Literally, there is a person standing right beside your car in desperate need, and so many times we just pass them by without even making eye contact. The line in the chorus that says “God, what have I been doing?” really stands out to me. So many times when I catch myself starting to just go through the motions, that what pops into my head, “What am I doing?” , I’m just sitting here wasting these days only worrying about myself, when there are so many people that I could be helping right now. There are so many better things that I could be doing. Once you start living outside your own little world, and start living your life for God’s greater purpose, it’s amazing how he blesses you. You may think you’re happy with your life right now..like the first verse said, you’ve got some money in your pocket and shoes on your feet. But when you start putting yourself out there, and leaving your own little world behind, it’s crazy how much happier you are. True happiness come’s from God, and when you’re going out and doing what he has told us to do, you will start to feel that true happiness that comes from obeying God.

     Last but not least, the bridge of the song. It goes like this- “Father break my heart for what breaks yours, give me open hands and open doors. Put your light in my eyes so I can see that my own little world is not about me.” This is perhaps my favorite part of the entire song. We as Christians should always be praying for God to break out hearts for what breaks his. To give us the eyes to see like he sees, to open doors, and also to realize that our own little worlds are not about us. It is so incredibly easy to just go on about life and not care, but that’s not at all what God wants us to do, we need to have the same love for people that Jesus has, our hearts need to be breaking for these people. There are so many people dying and never knowing the love of Christ. I don’t know about you, but that breaks my heart.

     Every time I hear this song, it makes me want to help more. I struggle every single day with wanting to do things that are comfortable for me. I want to help, but I’m always hesitant to do things out of my comfort zone. I know it’s definitely something that I need to work on, and with this still being the first few weeks into the new year, what better time to start living outside my own world than now?

Thanks for reading,

Macey.

(“My Own Little World”- Matthew West.)

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