Self-Absorbed

My local newspaper prints less and less news and more and more social commentary. It’s as though journalists have turned into bloggers. Reporters now insert themselves into the narrative, write columns about their vacations and offer opinion and commentary on things they know nothing about. It is a reflection of our time when people are self-absorbed. Paul understands that believers are not immune to the culture of the day, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. (Romans 12: 2-3 NIV).